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Reflections on Accessing Affordable Insurance in the Pacific

9 September 2021
This presentation highlighted the increasing challenge of securing adequate insurance cover for infrastructure projects.

Primer on Air Pollution Issues and Trends

26 August 2021
This presentation provides an overview of air pollution issues, trends, and opportunities in Asia.

Trends and Opportunities for Using Economic Instruments, Incentives, and Market-Based Approaches for Air Pollution Reduction in Asia

26 August 2021
This presentation shares findings from the air quality management chapter of the ADB technical study titled, Greening Markets: Market-Based Approaches for Environmental Management.

Resilience to Floods (rather than resistance to floods)

24 August 2021
This presentation shared the importance of building resilience to floods, rather than resisting floods. This requires flood risk management infrastructure, including nature-based solutions, and providing room for the river.

COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department

12 August 2021
Hisaka Kimura highlighted resilient water and sanitation during recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department

Smart City Integrated Platform and Smart City Safety Net Service

29 July 2021
This presentation explains the the concept behind the smart city integrated platform, which is an integrated urban situation management tool that synthesizes and processes various situation events in city that can occur simultaneously in crime prevention and disaster, traffic, environment, and…

Waste Watch: Circular Economy and Solid Waste Management Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities in Asia and the Pacific

21 July 2021
This presentation provides an overview of issues, trends, and opportunities to address waste management and promote a circular economy in Asia.

Trends and Opportunities for Using Economic Instruments, Incentives, and Market-Based Approaches for Waste Management in Asia

21 July 2021
This presentation shares findings from the waste management chapter of the ADB technical study titled, Greening Markets: Market-Based Approaches for Environmental Management in Asia.

WWF's EPR Project

21 July 2021
This presentation covers progress and development of extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs in Southeast Asian countries and the World Wide Fund for Nature's support for EPR implementation in the region.

Infrastructure for Solid Waste Management: ADB Urban Sector SWM Project – A snapshot

21 July 2021
This presentation provides a snapshot of ADB's urban sector solid waste management projects, including opportunities to scale up application of market-based instruments.