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Community Energy Systems: Realizing the Potential of People’s Partnership in Achieving Energy Access
19 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
Under Strategy 2030, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will sustain its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and expand its vision to achieve a prosperous, inclusive, resilient and sustainable Asia and the Pacific. This is aligned with the UN…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
19 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
The main objective of the workshop was for participants to gain in-depth knowledge of the work done in the ADB energy portfolio to integrate gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) considerations, with a focus on practice in South Asia.…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
19 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
Energy is vital to economic development. It is a critical input to water resources management—from pumping, transportation, treatment, and desalination. Energy powers agriculture—from farm equipment to food processing. Similarly, the water…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
19 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
Integrative design has been most widely applied in passive, net-zero, and net-positive buildings (those that over a year produce more energy than they use). However, similar opportunities have been demonstrated in mobility and energy too.…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
19 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
With costs for renewable energy (RE) continuing to fall, in many countries below the price of new thermal capacity, RE installations continue to increase rapidly. An increasing number of countries in Asia has shifted from planning for the…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
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
18 June 2019
There are over 1 billion people between the ages of 15 and 30 in Asia and the Pacific. How can this growing youth population be meaningfully engaged as more than just beneficiaries? This knowledge sharing session discussed ways to include youth as partners for development, particularly in ADB water…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
18 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Special Lunchtime Talk
The ocean economy is an organizing principle for organic growth in ADB’s investment operations flowing directly from Strategy 2030 operational priorities, as manifest in the announcement of ADB’s ocean health action plan at the ADB…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
17 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
ADB Youth for Asia organized a capacity building workshop for young people with an educational/professional background in the energy space. The workshop was designed to empower young people in building a more sustainable future.
The “Crash…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
17 June 2019
An Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2019 Deep Dive Workshop
Mobilizing private sector participation to address climate change is an important issue for policymakers in Asia-Pacific. Sector-specific calls for enhanced private sector finance and engagement for climate technology development, transfer…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office