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Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow

8 March 2022
Maldives’ Special Envoy for Climate Change Sabra Ibrahim Noordeen gave the keynote speech where she highlighted the urgency of closing the gap on gender equality to achieve more sustainable and resilient paths of development.

Knowledge Product: Financing the Blue Economy

27 January 2022
This report summarizes opportunities and presents potential solutions for mobilizing and aligning investment for a sustainable blue economy in Asia and the Pacific. It quantifies the financing gaps involved and outlines strategies to realize a sustainable blue economy. Improving environmental…

Loss of Coastal Wetlands in Asia – Tracking the Loss with Spatial Analyses

7 December 2021
New earth observation models are now being used to assess risks to coastal ecosystems. The overarching aim is to develop an operational system for monitoring losses and gains of saltmarsh, mangroves and tidal flat ecosystems at the global scale. These tools and systems allow the monitoring of…

Evidence-based conservation through the world’s largest partnership for birds, nature and people

6 December 2021
BirdLife International, as the world’s largest partnership for birds, nature and people, recognizes that conservation work should always benefit both nature and people. Through its work in the world’s most important flyways, including the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, BLI helps push the the post-…

Assessing regional capacity needs for wetland conservation and the way forward

6 December 2021
Strengths and weakness in capacity for wetland/flyway conservation, and integrating this into conservation action to ensure the sustainability of initiatives on wetlands is important. Capacity building activities for partners are assessed using a framework called the Quality Assurance System, which…

ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Pollution Prevention and Abatement Study (Bahasa Indonesia Translation)

25 November 2021

ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Pollution Prevention and Abatement Study (Russian Translation)

25 November 2021

ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Pollution Prevention and Abatement Study

25 November 2021

[VIDEO] Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Action—IISD/WEDO

24 November 2021
The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) represent key opportunities to address the gender dimensions of climate change if undertaken in a gender-responsive manner. Over the years, an increasing number of NAPs and NDCs have been mainstreaming gender…

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.