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Insights from Singapore Bamboo Workshop

11 April 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the key findings from a design thinking workshop on leveraging bamboo agroforestry for sustainable finance and climate resilience. It highlights its potential to empower communities and mitigate climate change.
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

Opening Remarks

10 April 2025
The document outlines the objectives and importance of a workshop focused on addressing the challenges of correspondent banking in the Pacific, emphasizing the need for strategic solutions and collaboration among participants.
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

Summary Joint ADB and Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge University Roundtable Discussion

10 April 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the role of AI technology in addressing the challenges of correspondent bank derisking, particularly in the context of cross-border payments and financial inclusion.
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

Transforming Policy and Investment Through Mainstreaming Rapid Approaches for Natural Capital Assessment and Accounting

28 March 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the strategies for integrating natural capital assessment and accounting into policy and investment decisions to enhance environmental sustainability and economic development across various countries.
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office

Objectives and Implementation of Republic Act No. 11995: Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System Act

28 March 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the keynote speech on the Philippine Ecosystem Natural Capital Accounting System (PENCAS) and its objectives, key players, and related workshops following the impact of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on local ecosystems and livelihoods.
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office

Highlights and Lessons Learned from the 3Ps Project: Sri Lanka Pilot

28 March 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the lessons learned and key activities from a pilot project in Sri Lanka focused on enhancing watershed investment programs through natural capital approaches, supporting both water and energy security and sustainable livelihoods.
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office

Progress on the Global Plastics Treaty

19 March 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the insights into the treaty discussions, the challenges ahead, and implications for the region.
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Material Circularity Platform

12 March 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the importance of a just transition by integrating waste workers, recyclers, and the informal sector into the digital economy, ensuring economic empowerment together with a positive environmental impact.

Financing Plastic Circularity: Recommendations to Overcome Market and Policy Challenges

26 February 2025
This presentation gives an overview of financing plastic circularity and addressing challenges and solutions related to plastic waste management in the Asia and the Pacific region.

Reinforcing fishery supply chains through storytelling: a crash course

12 February 2025
Value of storytelling for all sectors of the Blue Economy