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Waste to Energy in the Age of the Circular Economy: Best Practice Handbook and Compendium of Case Studies and Emerging Technologies

Reports and Publications
This handbook features best practices for integrating waste to energy and related technologies into the operations of various industries. It discusses current technologies, presents a conceptual example of municipal solid waste planning, and provides commentary on waste-to-…

Technology and Nationally Determined Contributions

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The publication provides synthesis of technology issues related to NDCs with a focus on technology needs, challenges, linkages between policy and implementation and linkages with national adaptation plans and presents success stories regarding the uptake of technologies in support of NDC…

100 Climate Actions from Cities in Asia and the Pacific

Reports and Publications
This publication showcases 100 projects and programs tackling climate change and its impacts on people and the environment in cities across Asia and the Pacific. The climate actions are drawn from multiple sectors—renewable energy, carbon finance, transport, land use, information and communication…

Carbon Pricing for Green Recovery and Growth

Reports and Publications
This publication discusses how carbon pricing instruments can be designed to help achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets while enabling economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Climate Risk Profile: Philippines

Press Releases
This publication synthesizes climate characteristics and projections, vulnerability to natural hazards, sectoral climate change impacts, and adaptation priorities in the Philippines. It outlines rapid onset and long-term changes in key climate parameters, as well as the impact of these changes on…

Ammonia technology roadmap towards a more sustainable nitrogen fertilizer production

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This technology roadmap uses scenario analysis to explore three possible futures for ammonia production. In the Stated Policies Scenario, the industry follows current trends, making incremental improvements but falling well short of a sustainable trajectory. In the Sustainable Development Scenario…

An assessment tool for building back strong and sustainable from the COVID-19 pandemic published

Reports and Publications
The Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division has released an assessment tool that provides a recovery framework interfacing various objectives in climate, low-carbon growth, and resilience.​​​​​​​This tool will help ADB developing member countries seize the opportunity presented by the…

Powering Healthcare Solutions Catalogue

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This catalogue serves the purpose of connecting stakeholders from the energy and health sectors with solutions providers, to help meet the energy needs of healthcare facilities in response to COVID-19 and beyond. The solutions provided represent a sample of a larger group of solution providers who…

Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report Released

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The world may not be able to meet its targets in ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030 if efforts are not scaled up significantly, according to the new Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report released on 28 May 2020 by the…

Managing Plastic Waste in the People’s Republic of China

Reports and Publications
This brief shares findings from an ADB study on plastic waste in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and makes policy recommendations to strengthen the country’s response to its plastic waste challenge. The brief explains the extent of the plastic waste challenge in the country and current efforts…