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19 December 2022
Speakers provide insights on how financial institutions can effectively quantify climate risks and its impact on portfolios and identity opportunities.
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department
7 to 9 December 2022
Digital transformation is central to enhancing economies’ productivity, competitiveness, and sustainable development. Digital finance and trade play an important role in these dynamics, with sound and efficient domestic and cross-border digital payments systems increasingly crucial for reducing…
Organizer: ADBI
5 December 2022
Dynamic entrepreneurs are needed to innovate and create the jobs that will support Asia’s future development. How can digitalization and the business environment provide conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive?
Objectives
Webinar attendees had the chance to engage with the speakers and:…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
2 December 2022
This ADBI hybrid event spotlighted key takeaways from the new book Keeping Indonesia Safe from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learnt from the National Economic Recovery Programme, published by the Indonesia Finance Ministry and the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. It explored COVID-19’s economic…
Organizer: ADBI
2 December 2022
This ADBI Featured Speaker webinar spotlighted Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Chief Economist Erik Berglof, who presented AIIB’s 2022 Asian Infrastructure Finance report on the transition to net zero carbon emissions in emerging economies and related policy challenges and solutions.…
Organizer: ADBI
28 to 30 November 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic, trade tensions, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has significantly disrupted global supply chains, reverberating through commodity markets and trade channels, threatening food and energy security, and weighing on sustainable economic recovery.
While the world continues to…
Organizer: ADBI
25 November 2022
This ADBI Featured Speaker webinar spotlighted Alexander Plekhanov of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), who presented EBRD’s 2022-23 Transition Report on the policy implications of “business unusual” conditions in the global economy.
He discussed the effects of COVID-19…
Organizer: ADBI
24 November 2022
Launched in 2020, Koinpack built a deposit-based reuse system for plastic packaging, allowing consumers to purchase their favorite brands in reusable bottles, instead of single-use flexibles. When they return the bottle, they get a cashback as an incentive.
Koinpack works with existing brands…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
24 November 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of climate change serve as a wake-up call for policymakers, corporations, investors, and all other relevant stakeholders to integrate environmental, social, and governance factors into their operations and daily lives. While ASEAN's sustainable bond market…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
17 November 2022
Session Synopsis: In observance of World Toilet Day and the call for urgent action to make sanitation a global development priority, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized a session on a waste-to-energy facility using omni-processor technology, which helped to provide clean water and other…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Water and Urban Development Sector Office