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Collaborative Approaches to Waste Management: Bridging the Informal and Formal Sectors (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 38)

8 May 2025
Drawing on real-world experiences from India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong, China, this webinar highlighted practical solutions—including innovative collection methods, effective procurement strategies, mapping initiatives, and informal friendly traceability technologies—that enhance…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Environment Thematic Group

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

ADB Data Room: Healthy Oceans and Coastal Resilience

23 July 2024
Oceans and coastal adaptation are core ADB business. Thirty of ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs) border the ocean, a sea, or a major river that drains into the ocean. ADB launched the Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies (hereafter known as the “Healthy Oceans…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Circular Economy: Integrated Waste Management Approach (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 27)

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

ADB Circular Economy Training Series: Accelerating the Circular Economy: Integrating Circularity into Programs, Projects, and Policies

21 February to 3 October 2024
ADB is organizing a training series on Circular Economy entitled “Accelerating the Circular Economy: Integrating Circularity into Programs, Projects, and Policies”. Delivered through four events in 2024, this initiative of the Environment Group presents cross-sectoral knowledge and experience…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Plastic Asset Circularity (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 21)

7 December 2023
This Circular Economy Webinar Series session spotlighted how Recity is enabling a circular economy of plastics with a combination of physical assets like ‘recycled material’ and digital assets like ‘credits’. This session also highlighted how Recity is connecting a brand's plastic footprint to…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Energy Sector Office

Smart Cities and Circular Economy: How Citizens Recycle and Reuse to Save the Planet (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 16)

22 June 2023
The amount of plastic waste in South Korea has been increasing rapidly during the coronavirus pandemic, and the problem is becoming serious. To solve this problem, it is important for civil society to properly separate and collect used disposable waste and turn it into resources and to use…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Jumpstarting Ocean Deep Tech

13 May 2022
Tom Chi explained how deep tech could be rapidly rolled out to solve our oceans' energy, regeneration, and livelihood challenges. Deep tech thinking has been taken from the IT industry and applied to ocean regeneration disruptive tech developments. Using his experience as a founding team member…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

ADB Data Room: Circular Economy

20 April 2022
The Circular Economy is an emerging theme internationally. A Circular Economy is a systemic approach to decouple economic development and activity from consuming finite resources. A Circular Economy will allow ADB to tackle global environmental challenges, including climate change, resource…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Farm-to-Market Produce Logistics: Cases and Emerging Trends in Korea and India

6 December 2021
Innovations in fresh produce agri-supply chains are happening across a wide spectrum of stakeholders and channels. Direct sourcing from farmers, connecting farmer producer organizations (FPO) to business and end consumers, digital supply chain management tools, engagement of e-commerce platforms…
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, South Asia Department