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Video: welcome remarks

14 November 2023
Video recording: The welcome remarks provides an overview of the project and agenda of the meeting.

[Video] Project Overview: “Risk Financing and Insurance Solutions for Coastal Resilience in Asia-Pacific"

14 November 2023
The sessions cover the following: overview of the project; outline of modelling approach; and outline of prioritization exercise and data needs.

[Video] Scene Setting: “Sustainable Finance for Asia and the Pacific: Protecting and Restoring Coral Reefs”

14 November 2023
The session summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Knowledge Product "Sustainable Finance for Asia and the Pacific: Protecting and Restoring Coral Reefs" jointly published by ADB and The Nature Conservancy. The knowledge product reviews the benefits of coral reefs, the risks faced…

MDB Support of a Just Transition: Translating Commitments and Principles into Concrete Action

15 November 2022
In 2019, the multilateral development banks (MDBs) collectively committed to support countries in transforming their economies towards low carbon and climate resilient development. Acknowledging that the unprecedented speed and scale of these transformations pose challenges but also opportunities…

Assessing & Reporting Sustainable Development Impacts of Climate Action – Introducing ADB’s New Tool

15 November 2022
ADB is developing a new methodology and a tool that aims to facilitate the quantitative assessment and reporting of the Sustainable Development (SD) impacts of climate action and their interlinkages with SDGs. This methodology will be operationalized through an Excel-based tool to ensure…

ClearPath for Online GHG Platform

5 December 2018
Learn more about ClearPath, the leading online software platform for completing greenhouse gas inventories, forecasts, climate action plans, and monitoring at the community-wide or government-operations scales.

Outcomes of the Break-out Groups

6 September 2016
Forum participants enumerated the limitations of existing financial instruments, which include, among others, a lack of accessible and adequate data and a common understanding about how to characterize loss and damage. They also discussed strategies and options that can be taken to create an…

Social Facets of Climate Risks

6 September 2016
What are the social aspects of the risks of loss and damage, particularly vulnerable countries, populations and the ecosystems they depend upon? In this presentation, Mark New of the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town explains the social facets of climate risks.

New Financing Approaches, Instruments and Opportunities that Address the Risks of Loss and Damage

6 September 2016
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the insurance industry has been working with institutional investors in promoting risk modelling beyond insurance. The aim is to offer parametric risk transfer to organizations (e.g., NGOs, development banks, microfinance providers, municipalities…

What Makes Social Protection Systems Adaptive?

6 September 2016
Poor households are more likely to be affected by disasters, and have been found to lose relatively more than non-poor people. Adaptive social protection programs can provide safety nets to poor households during disasters and other shocks. Learn from this presentation on how social protection can…