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30 May 2025
The countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Pakistan are home to a significant portion of Asia's glaciers. It is estimated that around 80 per cent of the total river runoff in Central Asia is supplied by meltwater from snow, glaciers, and permafrost in the region. These rivers comprise a…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office
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
25 October 2024
Key to the purpose, considerations, and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) and agenda item 25 on biodiversity and climate change are coherence, complementarity, and cooperation between the CBD and other relevant multilateral agreements such as the UNFCCC. At…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
11 June 2024
This session covered two broad themes: Abellon’s integrated waste management approach combining material recovery as well as energy recovery; and the second, the waste-to-energy technology approach that Abellon implements that is contextual to India and developing economies.
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
20 November 2023
ADB held in a hybrid format, a closing workshop for TA 6619 Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism for Ecosystem Services (MARES) at ADB HQ on 20 November 2023. Representatives from the Philippine government, the British Embassy in Manila, the private sector, and ADB staff…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
24 August 2023
This session discussed about an innovation for Waste to Energy: How Waste can be turned into an Energy Resource without air pollution and landfill needs as well as manage energy/waste/climate goals all at once.
The volume of waste not only in Korea but also around the world is exploding. Low-…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Energy Sector Office
2 February 2023
The built environment and the construction industry are major contributors to the planet's greatest environmental challenges - plastic waste and carbon emissions. There is a common misconception that these are separate and unrelated issues. However, they are very much interdependent, and we…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Energy Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office
20 October 2022
Nick Elger with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided an overview of tools and resources offered by the EPA to support methane mitigation from agriculture, waste, and wastewater. Nick also highlighted EPA's work with international partners through engagement in the Global…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Water and Urban Development Sector Office
22 September 2022
Thousands of tons of plastic waste are polluting Thailand’s canals, rivers, and seas every year. The TerraCycle Global Foundation collects and recycles that waste before it reaches and gets degraded and diluted across the ocean. In the space of 2 years, the Foundation has prevented over 560,000…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
25 August 2022
How can policymakers and corporate strategists design and implement effective policies to reduce and eventually eliminate plastic pollution?
This was the 4th session of the Circular Economy Webinar Session as we pre-launch the Introduction of Circular Plastics Economy for Policy Makers eLearning…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster