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Increasing Water Supply by Reducing Losses

2 October 2018
To effectively increase water supply, leakage reduction, not capacity production, must be prioritized. By reducing water losses, we can ensure efficient resource utilization, efficient utility management, enhanced customer satisfaction, and postponement of capital-intensive additions to capacity…

Innovation in Water Production and Diversification of Resources

2 October 2018
Water scarcity continues to be a threat to many coutnries in the coming years. There is an urgent need to find innovative solutions to this issue. This presentation shares details about the hydropanel- a technology that uses sunlight and air to produce water.

Basics of Image Classification and Geographical Information Systems

26 September 2018
The webinar answers the questions: How can I generate information from satellite imagery? What is GIS? How can it be used?

The Role of Regulation and Supervision for Enhancing Innovative Insurance, Reinsurance and Capital Market Solutions

26 September 2018
Innovation can make disaster risk insurance more responsive and effective. The use of FinTech and artificial intelligence, for instance, has attracted investments in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and has made banks in Spain more efficient, respectively. Innovations such as FinTech enable…

Nereda: An Alternative and Natural Way of Treating Wastewater

21 September 2018
This learning event discusses the Nereda, an advanced biological wastewater treatment technology. It purifies water using aerobic granular biomass that results in a chemical-free operation. Compared to conventional processes, Nereda requires less mechanical equipment and footprint, resulting in a…

UN Web Buy: Fostering Private Sector Partnerships and Digital Entrepreneurship

20 September 2018

E-Procurement Implementation

20 September 2018

Climate Change: The Politics of Action and Finance

20 September 2018
Tracking and reporting financial flows is needed to help measure the effectiveness of climate actions. This also helps in building trust and accountability and to monitor trends and progress. In this presentation, Pretty Bhandari, ADB’s Director for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management,…

Climate Finance Tracking: Joint MDB Approach

20 September 2018
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 worked together to develop methodologies for tracking their climate finance flows. This helps ensure that mitigation and adaptation finance flows are consistent, comparable, and transparent. This presentation provides a snapshot of how the MDBs joint…

Counting Mitigation Finance-MDB Approach

20 September 2018
For an activity to be considered under climate mitigation, it should help promote the reduction of green house gases (GHG) emission or enhance GHG sequestration. This presentation gives a closer look at the approach used by multilateral development banks (MDBs) in mitigation finance tracking.