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COP 30 Side Event: Scaling Nature Finance: Role of MDBs and Partners

17 November 2025
Scaling nature finance is essential for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. Healthy ecosystems—forests, wetlands, grasslands—provide services like flood protection, temperature regulation, and vital inputs for economic sectors. Agriculture, for instance,…
Organizer: Environment Thematic Group

Climate Change as a Security Challenge

21 October 2025
Climate change and environmental challenges can pose risks to human security and peace. As climate and environmental stressors become more pronounced, peace and security risks can also increase, based on context factors that shape vulnerability and resilience. In this session, the CCFE and adelphi…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Agroecological Landscape Restoration: Enhancing Climate Resilience through Nature-Based Solutions

14 October 2025
The session aimed to deepen understanding of the critical role of agroecological landscape restoration in enhancing climate resilience, food security, and sustainable livelihoods in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. Drawing on insights and lessons from the implementation of a regional…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

From Geneva to Southeast Asia: Turning Plastics Treaty Ambitions into Action

13 October 2025
Despite intensive negotiations at INC-5.2 in Geneva, governments had not agreed on a final draft of the Global Plastics Treaty, leaving its future uncertain. For Southeast Asia, however, the challenge was immediate: plastic use was projected to triple by 2060, and the region already generated the…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Southeast Asia Department

Environment and Nature Learning Week 2025

7 to 8 October 2025
The Asia and the Pacific is facing the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change that require integrated solutions. As a flagship activity under the Environment Community of Practice, this event aimed to support the implementation of ADB’s Environment Action Plan…
Organizer: Environment Thematic Group

Gender-Responsive Climate Action Training

2 October 2025
This training responded to ADB's commitments under the Climate Change Action Plan 2023-2030 and Strategy 2030, which prioritize gender equality and climate action. Recognizing the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women and the importance of integrating gender-responsive approaches in…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Progress on the Global Plastics Treaty: Outcomes and Insights from the Second Part of the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 42)

4 September 2025
With millions of tons of plastic produced each year and waste fueling environmental and climate concerns, the Global Plastics Treaty represented a pivotal step toward ending plastic pollution. Countries recently concluded the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Environment Thematic Group

Resilience Learning Month 2025 Capacity Development Course

8 August to 18 September 2025
This year’s program covered six major topics: low-carbon transition, carbon pricing and carbon finance, climate and disaster resilience, climate finance, disaster and emergency assistance, and Paris Agreement alignment. Low-carbon transition: The module explained the opportunities and challenges…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Effectiveness, Efficiency, Equity, and Enforceability – Evaluating Economic Instruments for Thailand's Packaging Waste (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 41)

25 June 2025
The Circular Economy Webinar Series continues, building on the demand for more knowledge and real-life use cases from the Circular Economy Forum. In this latest session, the focus was on the application of economic instruments as part of Thailand's approach to plastic pollution. The webinar…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Digitizing Waste Management with Women at the Center: Insights from Southeast Asia (Circular Economy Webinar Series Session 40)

5 June 2025
This is the 40th session of the ADB Circular Economy Webinar Series, after nearly three years of promoting circular economy innovations and solutions. This webinar also marked World Environment Day, celebrated annually on 5 June. This year's theme focused on ending plastic pollution, with the…
Organizer: Environment Thematic Group