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Quick Course on Climate and Disaster Risk-Informed Investments

25 September 2024 to 31 December 2025
Climate change and disaster risks pose a growing threat and could undermine development efforts in Asia and the Pacific region. The number of disasters triggered by natural hazards occurring yearly continues to increase due to climate change and increased incidence of overlapping and compounding…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

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

Asia Clean Blue Skies Knowledge-Sharing Event on Strategies for Implementation of Low-Emission Zones in Asia

8 to 9 May 2024
Rapid urbanization and population growth in Asia have led to a surge in vehicle fleets. In many cities, investment in mitigation measures such as vehicle emission controls, cleaner fuels, and travel demand management systems did not match this. As a result, traffic-related emissions led to…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Asia Clean Blue Skies Knowledge Sharing Event on Synergies and Co-benefits of Air Quality and Climate Change Action

29 to 30 April 2024
Air pollution and climate change continue to be a global concern, impacting the health and well-being, especially of marginalized groups and lower-income countries. The regional and global direction for action is for nations to progressively commit to a sustainability transition and adopt policies…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Forum 2024

27 to 28 February 2024
Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel | Bangkok, Thailand 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…
Organizer: 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

Insight Thursday: Scaling Up Local Adaptation Measures Through Climate-Responsive Decentralization Processes

15 February 2024
This session explained the inter-relationship between climate adaptation solutions, a decentralized system of governance, and climate resilience. It highlighted how local governments played a critical role in climate resilience as they had a mandate to deliver public services and execute public…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

147 RFI Priority Wetland Sites

22 January 2024
Ten (10) developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) —Bangladesh, Cambodia, People's Republic of China (PRC), Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam have been included in the detailed analytical work undertaken through the RFI. Except…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Risk Transfer Mechanisms: Partnerships for Coral Reef Finance and Insurance in Asia and the Pacific

14 November 2023
Healthy coastal ecosystems provide natural protective services and a first line of defense for coastal cities, communities, and infrastructure, as well as other valuable ecosystem services. For example, well maintained coral reefs provide critical ecosystem services, such as nurseries and feeding…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

CRPP Talks 2: Performance-Based Climate Resilience Grants: Experience from Asia and the Pacific

27 October 2023
This session shared the United Nations Capital Development Fund’s (UNCDF) experience on implementing the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility’s (LoCAL) performance-based grants mechanism for financing locally led adaptation in Asia and the Pacific region. It discussed how LoCAL enables local…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster