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From Plastic Waste to Transitional Shelters—The Circular Economy for Healthy Oceans

28 June 2019
François Lesage, CEO of Plastic Flamingo, shared the social enterprise’s creative way to help address marine plastic pollution and post-disaster recovery—a transitional shelter made from 100% recycled plastic waste. He discussed the value of the circular economy not only for healthy oceans, but…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office, Energy Sector Office, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Integrated Solutions for Livable Cities in Asia Pacific: Multi-Energy Systems and Sustainable Buildings

19 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop Taking into consideration the huge potentials to retrofit existing urban energy systems into sustainable ones, and continuous urbanization particularly in our DMCs in Asia-Pacific - it is estimated that 75 percent of the urban infrastructure…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office

Urban Microgrids

19 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop Cities must play a central role in addressing climate challenges, not only because of their great potential to mitigate emissions of all kinds, but also because of the vulnerability of urban infrastructure to extreme weather caused…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office

Renewable Energy Transition: Is Asia Leading?

17 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop Renewable energy uptake can be supported and driven by many players: policy-makers at global, national, and sub-national levels, citizens, private sector, energy consumers. In parallel, renewables can support the objectives of end-use…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office