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Closing Workshop on Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism for Ecosystem Services (MARES)

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

Digitalization for Smart, Resilient, and Interconnected Transmission Systems

11 October 2023
How can we ensure that transmission systems are smart, resilient, and interconnected to cope with the changing energy landscape and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to consumers? How can digitalization enable transmission system operators to optimize their assets,…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office

Low Temperature Gasification of Waste: Ultimate Solution for Energy/Waste/Climate (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 17)

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

Offshore Wind Development– Lessons from the United Kingdom

7 August 2023
David Still CBE and Bill Grainger shared their experience in the development of the offshore wind sector in the United Kingdom. They discussed the lessons learned, current international best practices, and how the industry skilled up to meet challenges.
Organizer: Energy Sector Office

Asia Clean Energy Forum 2023

13 to 16 June 2023
The Asian Development Bank, along with its co-organizers, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Korea Energy Agency (KEA), invited clean energy practitioners from across the Asia and Pacific region—including government agencies, private sector entities, equipment…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office

Why RED Blue Energy is ready for upscaling into megawatt-demonstration scale

14 April 2023
The webinar discussed Blue Energy or Salinity Gradient Power, which is generated by using two sources of water flows with different salt concentrations (fresh water and salt water), passing it through the Reverse Electro Dialysis (“RED”) stack. REDstack B.V. has developed a Reverse Electro…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office

High-Level Investor Forum on The New Ocean Energy Economy

7 February 2023
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved the Knowledge and Support Technical Assistance (TA) 6619:Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism for Ecosystem Services (MARES) in 2019. The TA will facilitate future investment in sustainable ocean economy development through two…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office

ECOBRICKS: A Circular Economy Solution to Transform Plastic Waste into Sustainable Concrete (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 11)

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

The World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment (SNG-WOFI) and the Special Report (for ADB) on Fiscal Decentralization

23 November 2022
Background The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collaborated under the knowledge partnership agreement in March 2022 for the preparation of the third edition of the World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference: Making Housing Affordable, Inclusive, and Resilient

8 to 9 November 2022
A city must provide housing to all its residents if it is to be called livable. Are cities in Asia and the Pacific livable from this perspective? Most cities in the lower- and middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face severe housing challenges. The urban poor and informal settlers…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office, Finance Sector Office, Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Special Initiatives and Funds