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4 July 2024
This event highlighted how the traditional way of charging road users based on fuel consumption will become obsolete, as more people switch to electric vehicles and other low-carbon modes, and how this leaves a funding gap for the road sector, requiring new systems that encourage green mobility…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office
1 July 2024
The Pacific Renewable Energy Investment Facility (PREIF), a technical assistance (TA) of the Asian Development Bank is designed to finance a number of small value renewable energy projects in 11 small Pacific Island countries (PIC-11). The facility aims to support PIC-11 to have greater access to…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
28 June 2024
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), led by the Environment Group under the Climate Change and Sustainable Department, focuses on addressing the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, environmental pollution, and climate change as part of its mandate as the Climate Bank of Asia and the Pacific…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
28 June 2024
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), led by the ADB Environment Group and the Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department (PPFD), organized a webinar on the Playbook for Nature-Positive Infrastructure Development on 28 June 2024, Friday, at 4:00 p.m. (GMT+8/Manila time).
The playbook…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department
27 June 2024
Primary healthcare (PHC) is the cornerstone of high-performing health systems. Private sector PHC providers, provide a significant proportion of PHC services in Southeast Asia, which is largely paid out-of-pocket. A rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the increasing risk of future…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
26 to 27 June 2024
The Asian Development Bank, in collaboration with the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), hosted a regional capacity building workshop: Accelerating Investments for Plastics Circularity, 26-27 June 2024, Jakarta, Indonesia.
The workshop aimed to provide insights and strategies to…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
26 June 2024
Providing safe and reliable water services to the public requires water utilities and natural resource management agencies to secure long-term access to land for water resources and water assets.
The ADB Pacific WASH Technical Assistance and Pacific Water and Wastewater Association
hosted the…
Organizer: Pacific Department
25 June 2024
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the Government of Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (JMAFF), has established the Expert Committee (EC) together with ASEAN participating countries such as the Philippines and Viet Nam and well-established research…
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
20 June 2024
Veronica Doerr, Research Program Manager at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), shared their experiences with locally-led adaptation through agricultural investments during the Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Talks webinar held on 20 June 2024.…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
18 June 2024
9:00 A. M. - 5: 00 P. M. GMT +8
The Asian Development Bank arranged a one-day forum for representatives from local commercial banks and their private sector counterparts in Viet Nam entitled ‘Environmental & Social Governance (ESG) and Climate Finance for Banks in Viet Nam.’
The forum aims…
Organizer: Office of Safeguards, Private Sector Operations Department