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Re-cap of Global Plastics Treaty and the 4th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee and Implications for Financing and Investments

26 June 2024
The document is about the Global Plastics Treaty and the 4th International Negotiating Committee Session, with a focus on financing and investment implications.

Information Session on the Consultation Approach for the Draft Environmental and Social Framework (ESF)

3 November 2023

Online Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation course and UN-Habitat capacity development

22 June 2022
Henrik Bregnhøj of Good Deed Consulting gave an overview of UN-Habitat Learn, UN-Habitat's online learning platform on sustainable urbanization launched in 2020. He also shared more information about their new course offering, an online Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation course that aims to help…

ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH)

30 May 2022

ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Gender and Safeguards

24 May 2022

Cumulative Impact Assessments and Case Studies

27 April 2022
Infrastructure development including upgraded highway systems act as trigger for induced development and land use change. Impacts are not just immediate or within a single lifetime but accumulate both in temporal and spatial scopes. Therefore, it is critical that infrastructure development always…

Monitoring and Performance Evaluation: Case Study on the Bhutan Road Network Project-II

27 April 2022
Improvements and innovation in design of linear infrastructure such as roads and bridges are observed to be beneficial to wildlife crossings. This is among the findings of a 2-phased monitoring study in Bhutan particularly in a 183-kilometer highway and feeder road constructed under RNP II with the…

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…

Current Practices and Design for Mitigating Road Impacts on Wildlife Populations

26 April 2022
Mitigating road impacts on wildlife populations require innovative design and practices. Crossing structures have been observed to be more effective than other systems. For example, more than 50 studies revealed thatthe combination of fencing and crossing structures led to an 83% reduction in road-…

Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Biodiversity in Asia

26 April 2022
The world is a highly paved planet. By 2050, there will be about 5 million kilometers of new road lanes and 300,000 kilometers of new railway tracks. To address potential negative environmental impacts of these massive infrastructures, USAID has developed the project, Linear Infrastructure…