15 September 2016
ADB is promoting the use of high-level technologies across the infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy, water, and urban development. Such technologies will help lower greenhouse gas emissions and raise development impacts, among other advantages.
This seminar brought together public…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office
12 to 16 September 2016
Sustainable Transport for All is the world’s new ambition for transport, as reflected in the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Asia and the Pacific will be pivotal in mainstreaming sustainable transport. The region is home to majority of the world’s population…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office
12 September 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are officially known as “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” and they are acting as the Post 2015 Development Agenda, successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There are 17 goals, 169 targets, and 233 indicators…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office
12 September 2016
Earth Institute's Jeffrey Sachs talked about economic resilience and sustainability, two critical challenges facing Asia and the world. He also discussed what governments and society can do to better manage future technological, social, demographic, and environmental challenges facing the region.
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
12 September 2016
The aim of the Paris Agreement cannot be realized without a strong commitment to reduce the nearly one quarter of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions from the global transport sector. Thus, it is imperative to focus on transport-related climate actions countries have included in their Intended…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office
12 September 2016
Among one of the most challenging targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the target to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020. The inclusion of road safety in the SDGs is belated recognition that road crashes lead to appallingly high…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office
7 September 2016
Communication strategies used by the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II in Indonesia helped shift villagers’ destructive fishing behavior and poor waste disposal toward a community-based effort to manage resources, and still economically benefit from environmental protection…
Organizer: Department of Communications and Knowledge Management
5 September 2016
ADB intern Cecilia Lee presented findings from a detailed review of retail electricity tariffs in selected developing member countries. She provided a critical analysis on electricity retail pricing, including tariff-setting regimes and subsidies.
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
5 to 9 September 2016
This inaugural learning event, co-sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Finance Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute, and the Asian Development Bank Independent Evaluation Department, focused on the exchange and synthesis of ideas on the latest and practicable thinking…
Organizer: Independent Evaluation Department
5 to 6 September 2016
Urgent steps need to be taken to manage risks of loss and damage associated with climate change.
Upon the invitation of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage, the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) convened its fourth forum that mainly tacked the…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster