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ADB, BirdLife International Affirm Commitment to Protect and Sustainably Manage Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific

25 July 2024
Bottom left: BirdLife International CEO Martin Harper, MDG Woochong Um, Special Senior Advisor on Climate Change Warren Evans Top left: Environment Officer Karen Ochavo, Environment Director Yoko Watanabe, CCSD Director General Bruno Carrasco, BirdLife Regional Director (Asia) Vinayagan…

Loss of Coastal Wetlands in Asia – Tracking the Loss with Spatial Analyses

7 December 2021
New earth observation models are now being used to assess risks to coastal ecosystems. The overarching aim is to develop an operational system for monitoring losses and gains of saltmarsh, mangroves and tidal flat ecosystems at the global scale. These tools and systems allow the monitoring of…

Climate Resilient Infrastructure

7 October 2020
This presentation gives an overview of ADB's work on climate resilient infrastructure.

Flood early warning in Asia, exploring new solutions

8 September 2020
This presentation discussed Deltares' experience with flood early warning systems in Asia.

Building Asia and the Pacific Back Better

20 August 2020
This presentation discussed ADB's alignment with HELP principles for water disaster risk reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a few examples of how ADB responded to the needs of member countries during the pandemic.

Enhancing Women-focused Investments in Climate and Disaster Resilience (WfIR)

3 June 2020
This presentation shared key findings of a recent publication that calls for women-focused investments in resilience to meet the gender and climate targets of ADB's Strategy 2030.

Using ICT to Control COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea

22 April 2020
The world has been suffering from the tragedy of the century, COVID-19, and fighting to overcome the disaster for five months already. The Republic of Korea is one of the countries successfully managing it. Prof. Chung shares how the Republic of Korea used information and communication technologies…

COVID-19: Smart Management System (SMS) in the Republic of Korea

22 April 2020
This presentation shares how the Republic of Korea leveraged a big data platform developed under the National Smart City Program in managing the outbreak and discuss key policy, issues including privacy and coordination among stakeholders in introducing the national big data platform.

The Role of Digital Technologies in the Fight against COVID-19: Korea Telecom's Response

22 April 2020
As the number of confirmed cases COVID-19 increased in the Republic of Korea, the need to digitize epidemic investigation activities mandated under the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act became essential. This presentation focuses on key technical issues involved in developing the…

Strategies to Respond to COVID-19 in the Republic of South Korea

20 April 2020
The approach taken by the Republic of Korea to the COVID-19 outbreak has been characterized as “trace, test, and treat” policy. Intensive contact tracing methods have been developed during the MERS outbreak in 2015. Contacts with a COVID-19 case are quarantined and tested for diagnosis. High…