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9 December 2022
The AASCTF Climate Resilience and Nature-Based Solutions Program thematic workshops were held in August and September 2022, which was designed to develop an understanding of the impact of flooding and climate change in cities and provided tools for assessing their own city’s context in which NbS…
13 June 2022
[Flyer also available in Bahasa Indonesia, Khmer, Lao, and Viet]
Unlike grey infrastructure, nature-based solutions (NbS) uses or mimic the natural environment to solve various urban challenges, and these solutions are often cost-effective and have multiple co-benefits, whether economic, social,…
7 June 2022
Heloise Buckland, CEO and Co-Founder of HUSK, discussed the challenges faced by Asia’s smallholder farmers and presented a circular economy solution that promotes soil regeneration and climate resilience through the benefits of biochar products derived from rice husks.
18 June 2019
Developing long-term low emissions development strategies (LT-LEDS) provides an opportunity for Asia-Pacific countries highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change to simultaneously achieve other development objectives, including energy and food security, economic resilience and resilience to…
16 March 2018
Natural hazards such as floods and drought increasingly occur due to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change. To cope with the adverse effects of climate change, familiarization of agricultural insurance as an adaptation measure is needed especially by developing world farmers…
8 March 2018
Fiame Naomi Mataafa, Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa, talked about how women leaders can promote positive change in their communities and in society
Hon. Fiame Naomi Mataafa drew on her personal journey in sharing the importance of women's leadership in bringing positive change at ADB’s celebration…
20 May 2015
This presentation provides an overview of Asian Development Bank's Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project in Viet Nam. It explains the concept of community-based disaster risk management, and how ADB has utilized this approach in implementing its…