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United Nations, The Yellow River Ecological Corridor Program, Voluntary Commitment (March 2023)

31 March 2023
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the People's Republic of China (PRC) Government to strengthen the sustainable management of natural capital in the PRC’s second largest river basin. The Yellow River Ecological Corridor (YREC) Program was established in 2020 adopting an innovative…

UN 2023 Water Conference, Resilient Rivers to Healthy Coasts for People and the Planet: An Integrated River Basin Management Approach

31 March 2023
Thisvevent at the UN 2023 Water Conference will present selected cases, including the Yellow River Basin, Yangtze River Basin, the Rhine and others to share knowledge and solutions that demonstrate successful applications of integrated IRBM. Contributions will focus on inclusive governance and…

Economics of Transportation Infrastructure: Balancing Needs of Biodiversity Conservation and Costs

27 April 2022
Economic analysis tools are important instruments that support decision making for infrastructure development including rural roads. The use of these tools such as economic valuation, cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis help identify potential impacts and their costs, which could be…

ADB Brief: Scaling Natural Capital Investments in the Yellow River Ecological Corridor (November 2021)

30 November 2021
This is an ADB policy brief that offers recommendations for the transition of the Yellow River basin into an ecological corridor to improve natural capital protection, ecological restoration, and sustainable agricultural practices.

ADB brief: Yangtze River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China: Overview of Key Provisions and Policy Recommendations (October 2021)

31 October 2021
This brief presents an overview of the policy recommendations prepared under a technical assistance (TA) project of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which provided technical support and policy advice in the formulation and design of the Yangtze River Protection Law (YRPL), 2020 of the People’s…

Innovative Financing Instruments: Eco-compensation in PRC

4 August 2021
Supporting ecological compensation in the People's Republic of China through ADB projects

ADB technical assistance cluster program: Strengthening Capacity, Institutions, and Policies for Enabling High-Quality, Green Development in the Yellow River Ecological Corridor (October 2020)

31 October 2020
The proposed knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) cluster will support the achievement of resilient ecological protection and high-quality development goals in the Yellow River Basin in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The TA cluster will design and implement approaches to support…

Understanding Disease Transmission and Health Risks through Water Systems

25 August 2020
This presentation discussed how an integrated approach contributes to the understanding of health risks in water systems, mainly on freshwater systems, looking at drivers, pressures, state, impact, and responses, citing a few examples of innovative monitoring and modeling used in forecasting and…

Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture in the People’s Republic of China

29 October 2019
This report presents the findings of an assessment on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to improve food production and distribution in the People’s Republic of China.

Ending Hunger in Asia and the Pacific by 2030: An Assessment of Investment Requirements in Agriculture

29 October 2019
This speech gives an overview of the joint publications of ADB and the International Food Policy Research Institute that assess the investment requirements in agriculture in the region. It also provides a snapshot of the researches conducted in Indonesia and the People’s Republic of China.