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Resilience to Floods (rather than resistance to floods)

24 August 2021
This presentation shared the importance of building resilience to floods, rather than resisting floods. This requires flood risk management infrastructure, including nature-based solutions, and providing room for the river.

COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department

12 August 2021
Hisaka Kimura highlighted resilient water and sanitation during recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department

Building Resilience of the Power System in the Low-Carbon Transition

28 April 2021
This presentation discussed how building power sector resilience aligns with ADB’s energy policy, which is currently being updated, as well as ADB’s Strategy 2030’s operational priority 3—tackling climate change, building climate and disaster resilience, and enhancing environmental sustainability.

Energy Resilience and Climate Adaptation in Belize

28 April 2021
This presentation shared the results of a study on power systems in Belize which identifies climate vulnerabilities and solutions to enhance systems resilience to adverse weather and climate change impacts.

Dialogues on Resilient Infrastructure Drought Resilience: Irrigation, water harvesting, drainage

24 March 2021
This presentation discussed protective irrigation, water harvesting and watershed management, and efficient drainage for salinity control to enhance drought resilience. Jelle highlighted the importance of ensuring that drought resilience solutions are closely aligned with national development…

Flood Early Warning in Asia, Exploring New Solutions

15 March 2021
Delft Flood Early Warning System (Delft-FEWS) is freely available expert software that handles large amounts of forecast data efficiently, integrates the latest observations with the most recent meteorological forecasts, and provides for consistent data quality, standardized work processes, and…

HKV Digital Water

15 March 2021
HKV's services are based on in-depth knowledge of hydrology, hydraulics, morphology, mathematics, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and information technology.

Infrastructure for Urban Resilience: Integrating Gray and Nature-based Solutions

25 February 2021
Kerrie Burge discussed the role that nature-based solutions (NbS) play in making urban infrastructure not only resilient but also inclusive and sustainable.

UCCRTF: Economics of Urban Resilience

25 February 2021
Matt Savage talked about measuring the benefits of investing in urban infrastructure resilience. He used as case UCCRTF’s work on examining the economics of urban resilience, which aims to build a sound business case drawn from country and local- level studies.

The Adaptation Principles: A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

25 November 2020
Stephane Hallegatte of World Bank discussed the adaptation principles and the importance of assessing both the resilience of project design and the resilience of the project outcomes. He highlighted practical tools, concrete examples, and information to guide decision-makers through the principles…