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Outcomes and way forward from the UNESCAP Meeting on "Crop Residue Management in South Asia: Advancing Subregional Cooperation for Sustainable, Climate‐smart and Integrated Management of Crop Residues"

27 April 2023
This presentation discussed the challenges and solutions to crop residue management to reduce agriculture burning from UNESCAP perspective

Case study: Specific measures to address air pollution from agricultural burning in Thailand

27 April 2023
This presentation discussed challenges and solutions in implementing available solutions to reduce the open-burning of agricultural residues.

Clean Ports, Clean Oceans: Improving Port Waste Management in the Philippines

20 April 2023
This presentation gives an overview of best practices, and learning experiences of the "Clean Ports, clean oceans: Improving port waste management in the Philippines” project.

Best Practices for Restoring and Rehabilitating Ecosystem Services in Wetlands: Examples from the United States

15 March 2023
The restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems (and their services) is an important approach in ensuring sustainable management of wetlands. There is a need to understand different restorative and adaptive management measures to be able to choose the “best approach”. Examples of disturbance to…

Case studies: Sustainable agriculture and its role in maintaining ecosystem services

15 March 2023
Wetlands, if sustainably managed for agricultural and conservation purposes, can significantly contribute to ensuring food security. Cases in sustainable agriculture are shared, with key recommendations highlighted: • Promotion of the sustainable coexistence of agriculture and wetlands; • Use of…

Introduction to Wetland Ecosystem Services and Payment for Ecosystem Services

14 March 2023
Knowing and appreciating the ecosystem benefits that are derived from the natural environment improves our ability to preserve benefits or understand the trade-offs. Similarly, putting a ‘value’ on nature allow users to commit to its conservation, protection, and optimal use. The benefits are often…

Introduction to ecosystem services assessment tools: the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA)

14 March 2023
Economic valuation of ecosystem services (ES) is frequently used to present ecosystem value in a policy-relevant and accessible way (which can be leveraged into decision-making). Practitioners and decision-makers use a range of methods to assess the value and relative importance of the full range…

Adapting ecosystem service assessment tools: Experiences and lessons learned

14 March 2023
Aside from TESSA, there are other tools that are used to measure and valuate ecosystem services. Two of them are the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) and Rapid Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Services (RAWES). InVEST models are spatially-explicit, utilizing maps as…

Building a Business Case for the Future of our Shared Flyway

14 March 2023
The Regional Flyway Initiative (RFI) team joined the 11th East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Meeting of the Parties in Brisbane, Australia (12-17 Mar 2023). ADB’s Duncan Lang and BirdLife International’s Ding Li Yong delivered the keynote presentation, which covered the status of…

Summary of Phase 2 Stakeholder Consultations

1 March 2023