Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Sonia Sandhu discussed the challenges and opportunities of accounting greenhouse gas emission of urban infrastructure projects, and incorporating GHG inventories into city investment planning processes. The aim of the interactive discussion is to align with ADB's commitments on climate change mitigation.

Mitigation progress cannot be measured without estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Capturing project and city emission estimates has yet to be fully mainstreamed as part of Asian Development Bank’s urban operations. Despite the challenges, there is a strong case for moving toward establishing and maintaining GHG inventories for cities in the long-term.

This graphical presentation shows the transition and growth of the global urban transport system and infrastructure.

This presentation provides a comprehensive explanation about the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) approach in order to control and organize urban growth. It also showcases several successful case studies that made use of the TOD approach.

Learn how the Avoid-Shift-Improve principle can help leaders and policy makers achieve sustainable transport in their countries. This presentation outlines the necessary items to avoid, activities to shift to, and action items to improve on.

This presentation identifies the emerging problems in urban development and growth in relation to climate change. It also discusses the possibility to achieve urban growth and good climate in parallel.

The Cities Development Initiative for Asia identifies key challenges in urban financing that hinders medium size cities from implementing their infrastructure development plans. This presentation also identifies the necessary steps to link urban infrastructure with financing.

Find out how Japan was able to achieve sustainable development through strong leadership and effective implementation of national policies.

Learn how the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative can bring several potential corruption risks.

Overall Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur H. Carandang, LL.M. shares current initiatives in combating corruption in the Philippines. His presentation also enumerates proposed legislative reforms to prevent cases of corruption.