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Enhancing Power System ResilienceImproving Power System Adaptation to Climate Change

16 June 2020
Asia is the region with the most frequent and most severe natural disasters in the world. With the coming of climate change, disaster as typhoon, flood, droughts are becoming more intense while threatening the safe operation of the power system. Rather than a passive response to climate change with…

Strengthening Urban Resilience Integrating Inclusive Infrastructure Energy Climate and Health Systems

16 June 2020
In our response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are effectively undertaking a massive experiment where we disrupt our entire economy and how we work and live within it. This has implications for our health and infrastructure, as well as gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) linkages.…

WCTRS COVID19 Task Force Aims Action Plans and Preliminary Recommendations

12 June 2020
The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) established a Task Force to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 and support emergent policy decisions on ways to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This Task Force also aim to maintain supply chains for the survival of industries and…

Impacts of COVID19 on Transport Sector and Measures Agaisnt Public Health Threats Policymaking Based on PASS Approach

12 June 2020
Considering the various uncertainties about COVID-19 and its impacts (especially long-term impacts), the presentation showed the findings of a study carried out by the WCTRS COVID-19 Task Force. A world-wide questionnaire survey of experts in the field of transportation and other relevant fields is…

Progress Report on ADBs Action Plan for Healthy Oceans

8 June 2020
This presentation provided updates on ADB's Action Plan for Healthy Oceans programmatic work, including program pipelines, targets, and flagship programs, and discussed ocean finance activities, including the Blue Economy and Healthy Options Finance Initiative, and the Oceans Partnership Facility.

Global Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment amid COVID19 Supply Chains Bottlenecks and Policy Implications

4 June 2020
This presentation discussed the unprecedented excess demand for PPEs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to domestic and international PPE supply chain disruptions and put frontline healthcare workers at risk. It also discussed various trade barriers to PPE supply, how governments ramped up PPE…

gLOCAL Insights Support to Sustainable Transport Solutions in light of the COVID19 Crisis

3 June 2020
This presentation discussed key findings from the assessment of ADB's transport support between 2010 to 2018, and presented six recommendations on how ADB can further strengthen the development support of its ADB transport interventions.

Enhancing Womenfocused 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.

Sustainable Tourism in Asia and the Pacific Situation Analysis and impact of COVID19

3 June 2020
This presentation shared research on sustainable tourism and COVID-19 recovery, with a focus on policies and value chains that benefit communities, protect and restore natural capital, and support resource efficiency.

Land Use Transport Interactions of High Speed Rail HSR

15 May 2020
Dr. Francesca Pagliara talks about her work on wider socioeconomic impacts of HSRs on mobility choices, mega cities, temporary offices, land prices and equity issues. Further, with her experience of co-editing two textbooks published by Springer on location choices, she shares insights about the…