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Sustainable Mobility for All Towards Implementation

14 September 2016
The World Bank Group facilitates Sustainable Mobility for All through its four objectives of universal access, efficiency, safety, and green. The aim is to achieve improved lives and livelihoods of billions of people across the world—their health, environment, and quality of life—and stabilize…

Air Quality and Urban Transportation

13 September 2016
Learn about urban air quality and transportation challenges faced by Latin America. This presentation examines the impact of carbon dioxide emissions from the transport sector on air quality in the region.

Opening Plenary on Improving Air Quality in Asia and the Pacific

13 September 2016
About 97% of cities in Asia, according to data between the period 2009 to 2015, have unhealthy air quality levels. This presentation describes the air pollution situation in Bangkok two decades ago. Clean fuels and new vehicles are major factors responsible for Bangkok’s cleaner air at present.

Reducing Air Pollution and Promoting Health through Sustainable Transport

13 September 2016
The World Health Organization’s work on air pollution, sustainable transport, and health rests on these five pillars: (i) improve evidence on health risks; (ii) strengthen health system monitoring, reporting, and assessment capacity; (iii) optimize health co-benefits from sustainable transport; (iv…

Communicating Environmental Protection

7 September 2016
The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project in Indonesia is a three-phased project with the objective of setting up 20 million hectares of Marine Protected Areas by 2020. Based on lessons from Phase 1, communication was integrated as a component for Phase 2 and considered critical for…

Communication Strategies for Various Stakeholders

7 September 2016
Key communication strategies employed by the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project (COREMAP) Phase II in Indonesia entailed promoting, building, and sharing the COREMAP brand; mobilizing public support for effective coral reef management and positioning the issue as a public concern; and…

National-Level Communication Strategy and Approaches

7 September 2016
The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II in Indonesia focused its communication activities at the national level on members of parliament, key law enforcers, and key judicial officials. The communication strategy was developed early as a project requirement as public awareness…

Community-Focused Communication Strategies

7 September 2016
A unique element in the design of the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II in Indonesia was its decentralized model focusing on community-based resource management. This required a substantial investment in social mobilization to organize community groups and foster behavior…

Impact Evaluation of Environmental Outcomes

6 September 2016
Impact evaluation (IE) is both a possible and vital component in implementing environmental programs and in achieving the desired environmental outcomes. Indirect and general equilibrium effects, however, pose challenges in the use of IE as an environmental intervention. Coming up with creative…

Institutional Challenges: Case Study on Low Carbon District Heating in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People’s Republic of China

2 September 2016
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a resource-rich province located in a severe cold climate zone of the People's Republic of China, relies heavily on coal to provide heating for its population. With support from Asian Development Bank, a new and gender-sensitive business model for wind-based…