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Leveraging Satellite Data for Resilient and Climate-Friendly Infrastructure

3 April 2025
This webinar, held last 3 April 2025, discussed leveraging satellite data to support recovery from climate shocks and monitor infrastructure resilience in emerging economies. The session covered the analysis of impacts and recovery efforts from the 2022 Pakistan floods, the use of high-frequency…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office

Event 6: Build Back Better Sector Dialogue: Social Infrastructure

28 March 2025
The sixth webinar explored good practice solutions, considerations, and lessons learned for building back better of the social infrastructure sector, featuring a case study on Nepal’s Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project.
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Progress on the Global Plastics Treaty: Outcomes and Insights from the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Process (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 37)

19 March 2025
With millions of tons of plastic produced annually and plastic waste driving environmental and climate concerns, the Global Plastics Treaty will be key in reshaping policies and investments to end plastic pollution in Asia and the Pacific. This webinar unpacks key outcomes from the fifth session…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Pursuing Green Road Opportunities in Tajikistan

13 March 2025
This webinar discussed the lessons learned from using the toolkit and the opportunities that have arisen from its application.
Organizer: Transport Sector Office

Accelerating Circularity and Just Transition through Digital Solutions (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 36)

12 March 2025
In the journey toward a sustainable, inclusive, and waste-free future, digital transformation plays a pivotal role in reshaping material flows and empowering communities. This webinar explored how data-driven technologies, digital product passports, and traceability platforms can accelerate…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Bioengineering for Green Roads

27 February 2025
The Bioengineering for Green Roads webinar discussed how bioengineering can provide practical, realistic solutions in making road infrastructure more sustainable, resilient, and ecologically responsible.
Organizer: Transport Sector Office

Financing Plastic Circularity: Recommendations to Overcome Market and Policy Challenges (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 35)

26 February 2025
With the massive scale of the plastic pollution crisis, countries need an estimated $50 billion–$120 billion annually to achieve their waste reduction goals. Asia and the Pacific is at the epicenter of global plastic pollution, yet the region accounts for only 8% of plastic circularity…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Partnership Forum 2025

25 to 26 February 2025
The Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) is a partnership program to help countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific region scale up investments in climate adaptation, especially investments at the community level, that explicitly target the nexus between climate change, poverty…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Build Back Better: The ADB Transport Sector Guide

13 February 2025
This webinar discussed the Build Back Better Sector Guide, which aims to avoid repeated failures of infrastructure through simply reinstating low-resilient solutions.
Organizer: Transport Sector Office

Launch of the Manila City Action Plan for Plastic Circularity  

10 February 2025
On 10 February 2025, ADB, in collaboration with the City Government of Manila, Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau, and other national government agencies, launched the Manila City Action Plan for Plastic Circularity at ADB Headquarters, aligned with…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Water and Urban Development Sector Office