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From Roots to Revenue: Securing Finance and Climate Solutions Through Agroforestry The Case of Bamboo

11 April 2025
This workshop aimed to build on the insights and innovative ideas from the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) design thinking session on financing bamboo agroforestry (Development Asia for the proceedings). This second installment focused on practical implementation, exploring real-world case…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

Maldives Tuna Think Tank

12 to 13 February 2025
Representatives from key segments of the tuna fisheries value chain in the Republic of Maldives gathered in Malé on 12-13 February 2025 for the Tuna Think Tank Workshop. This event brought together significant stakeholders, including delegates from the Maldivian government, fish processing…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

Plastic Odyssey: Tackling Plastic Pollution through Innovation

21 November 2024
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized a hybrid webinar, Plastic Odyssey: Tackling Plastic Pollution Through Innovation, on 21 November 2024, from 2:00–3:30 p.m. at Learning Resource Center 1, ADB Headquarters. The event featured Simon Bernard, CEO of Plastic Odyssey, and was coordinated by…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

From Roots to Revenue: Securing Finance and Climate Solutions Through Agroforestry The Case of Bamboo

4 November 2024
This focused design thinking workshop, curated by the ADB, aimed to consider mechanisms to scale high-impact agroforestry. Using bamboo as a case study for how agroforestry might achieve affordable, disaster-resilient housing, climate mitigation, and financial health for the vulnerable, this…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office

The Global Plastics Treaty and Implications for Southeast Asia

12 September 2024
Each year, more than 462 million tons of plastic are produced, with 90% contributing to global pollution. An estimated 9 million to 14 million tons of plastic waste in our oceans annually, harming wildlife, ecosystems, and human health. In 2019, plastics generated approximately 1.8 billion…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

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

SECURE Webinar 8: Promising the Green Economy: Conceptualizing Green Initiatives to Health Facilities in Asia and the Pacific

7 July 2023
Strong, balanced, secure, sustainable, and inclusive growth in the economy is one of the major drivers of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Putrajaya Vision 2040. To attain sustainable growth outcomes, APEC member countries focus on policy responses to environmental and social…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office, Southeast Asia Department

ADB-ADBI Workshop on Development and Innovative Finance Session 3: Greening Micro- and Macro-prudential Frameworks

21 September 2022
This joint ADB-ADBI workshop discussed innovative finance underpinning Energy Sector Group investment and its sustainable development implications. It focused on blended finance and carbon offset project financing. It also examined ways to mobilize private sector funding for sustainable…
Organizer: ADBI, Finance Sector Office, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Transitioning from a linear to circular economy in post pandemic Southeast Asia

27 July 2022
The 19th Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “Transitioning from a linear to circular economy in post pandemic Southeast Asia” featured global good practice examples and policy options in accelerating the uptake of circular economy transition and solutions. Over 60…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Implementing a Green Recovery in Southeast Asia

6 July 2022
As countries begin to recover from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, policy makers must decide what type of economic recovery they want to pursue. Will they choose measures that continue with existing “business-as-usual” economic structures that have a negative impact on the…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department