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21 October 2020 to 15 July 2021
Infrastructure is central to improving the lives of people and achieving inclusive and sustainable development. ADB recognizes that investing in resilient infrastructure systems is a human, environmental and economic imperative with clear economic benefits. Asia and the Pacific will need to invest…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
16 October 2020
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic heightened global awareness of the need to protect nature as well as people and address threats to biodiversity. Efforts to protect migratory waterbirds and their wetland habitats provide opportunities to help improve the protection of natural capital…
Organizer: East Asia Department
12 October 2020
Many decision-makers in Asia are becoming interested in policies and technologies that control air pollution while mitigating climate change. The cleaner air, improved health, and stable climate resulting from these policies and technologies are known as co-benefits.
Part of the reason co-…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
12 to 16 October 2020
Global leaders have in recent years endorsed a G20 roadmap and principles for promoting quality infrastructure investment to help catalyse economies and realize the Sustainable Development Goals. To take next steps toward these objectives, it is imperative to examine how transportation…
Organizer: ADBI
7 October 2020
ADB undertakes Business Opportunities Seminars (BOSs) in its members to improve the interest and ability of eligible suppliers to locate ADB business opportunities, prepare high-quality and responsive bids, and understand ADB’s procurement and anticorruption procedures. For 2020, a series of…
Organizer: Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department
6 October 2020
Real-time flood forecasting is one of the most effective flood risk management measures. Many governments operate bespoke hydrological forecasting services that continuously monitor and forecast coastal and fluvial water levels.
However, given the rapid advancements in technology, such as…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
6 October 2020
In an era of rapid urbanization, an open and visual urban planning process is vital to a city’s capacity to be competitive while promoting its citizens’ wellbeing. To this end, digital planning systems have become an invaluable tool for local government officials and city planners, enabling them…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department
5 to 12 October 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic has had huge disruptive effects on normal life, difficult as it already was in many countries. For schools, students and parents, the impact of closed schools and children stuck at home with little or no access to learning, the effect has been devastating. Experts…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
1 October 2020
8:00–9:00 a.m. (London time) | 3:00–4:00 p.m. (Manila time) | via Zoom
With more than half of 2020 spent under the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic already, proper hand hygiene has become mainstreamed, if not ingrained, into public consciousness. Access to and sustainability of water,…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
1 October 2020
Delivering a safe, effective vaccine will be a turning point in the fight against COVID-19. Drawing on his ongoing research, Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer explored how to create appropriate incentives to accelerate access to the vaccine.
Led by Vice President Deborah Stokes, a high-level panel…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department