“Transport and climate change” is one of the priority pillars identified under the Asian Development Bank's Sustainable Transport Initiative Operational Plan, 2010 (STI-OP). Transport investments or the use of transport typically lead to increases in greenhouse gas emissions, and so increased knowledge and capacity on how to mitigate emissions to the extent possible will significantly benefit the transport sector.

Waste-to-fuel technology is one of the most promising areas of achieving significant reductions in both greenhouse gas and health-related emissions from bus operations. Biogas can be produced from a range of waste streams, including agricultural waste, landfill waste, and sanitation waste, which can then be converted to biomethane that vehicles can use as compressed natural gas.

This training workshop combined classroom lectures from waste-to-fuel experts as well as site visits in the Republic of Korea that viewed the actual technology in practice.