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20 to 21 November 2019
ADB's South Asia Regional Department, in collaboration with the World Bank’s South Asia Energy and Social Development Units and Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), organized the Second Partnership Forum of the Women in Power Sector Professional Network in South Asia– WePOWER – to…
Organizer: South Asia Department
2 to 5 September 2019
More than half of the world’s population today live in cities, and 80 percent of the world’s energy is consumed here. As part of its Strategy 2030 commitments, ADB aims to support cities in their journey to become low-carbon and more livable by supporting the development of a system that cities can…
Organizer: East Asia Department
3 July 2019
Electric vehicles are rapidly emerging in many parts of Asia and alleviating the health and environmental burdens caused by the transport sector in what is called a “clean disruption.” EVs are gaining momentum in light of recent announcements by several major car manufacturing countries to ban…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department
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
21 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that in order to limit average global temperature rise to 2°C below the pre-industrial era in the most economical way, 14% emission reduction will have to come from carbon capture and…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
21 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
As the investment cost of renewables continues to fall, and utility-scale solar and wind become increasingly cost-competitive with conventional power generation, private developers, policymakers, and power system planners are searching for…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
21 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) is a process by which a group of countries actively cooperate to achieve common goals for mutual benefit. This facilitates market-driven regional integration and the generation of regional public…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
21 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
Energy access is a multidimensional problem that requires collaboration across disciplines and sectors. This Deep Dive Workshop on “Achieving Universal Energy Access in the Asia Pacific Region” will attempt to capture how far development…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
20 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
Southeast Asia is one of the world’s fastest-growing economic regions and as such needs new investments in power and infrastructure to meet the demands of the rapidly urbanizing and a relatively young population. An accelerated transition to…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
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