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24 July 2025
The private sector contributed less than half of total climate finance in the region—far below the IMF’s estimated 90% share needed by 2030. With rising climate finance needs and limited public resources, private capital is essential. This webinar explores the drivers and barriers influencing…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
14 March 2025
Women’s labor market attachment remains weak in many developing economies, even as the gender gap in education disappears. The case of Indonesia provides helpful insights into the problem. As national labor force data show, many women enter wage employment in their early 20s, only to drop out…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
16 January 2025
Public perceptions can play a key role in either driving or hindering reform efforts. For the Asia-Pacific Climate Report 2024, ADB surveyed about 13,500 residents across 14 Asian economies. The survey aimed to understand public views on climate change, awareness of government actions,…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
31 October 2024
To support developing Asia and the Pacific in combating climate change through policy reforms, the Asian Development Bank launched a new knowledge series: the Asia-Pacific Climate Report. This inaugural issue offered an overview of the region’s evolving climate landscape, including updated…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
20 to 21 October 2023
This year’s East Asia Forum will be held alongside the Asia-Pacific Forum on Green and Low Carbon Development (APFGLCD). The event is jointly organized by ADB, ADB-PRC Regional Knowledge Sharing Initiative (RKSI), ADB Institute and the Ecology and Environment Department of Hunan. It is a…
Organizer: East Asia Department
3 July 2023
Location: Kerry Hotel, Beijing.
Date: July 3, 2023 (Monday), 09:00-17:10 (Beijing time)
Meeting ID: 960 0014 1764
Passcode: YREC230703
Objectives of the Bejing onsite hybrid seminar (1 day)
Introduce the project implementation;
Final report (draft comments) presentation and…
Organizer: East Asia Department
28 June to 3 July 2023
Seminar 1
Location: Onsite – Henan Province (Zhengzhou city), hybrid (online participation for Day 1 and Day 3)
Date: May 24 – 26
Seminar 2
Location: Kerry Hotel, Beijing.
Date: July 3, 2023 (Monday), 09:00-17:10 (Beijing time)
Meeting ID: 960 0014 1764
Passcode: YREC230703
The Yellow…
Organizer: East Asia Department
8 June 2023
Developing Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change, even as it is an increasing contributor to the global climate crisis. This webinar explored what a transition to global net zero emissions could mean for the region’s key mitigating sectors and its socioeconomic implications.
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department
24 to 26 May 2023
Location: Onsite – Henan Province (Zhengzhou city), hybrid (online participation for Day 1 and Day 3)
Objectives of the Henan onsite hybrid seminar (3 days)
The onsite seminar is hosted by ADB and co-hosted by YRCC and MEE, with external participation of sector relevant PRC agencies and…
Organizer: East Asia Department
15 February 2023
Trade and investment play an outsized role in the economic development of the Asia and Pacific region, but it has come with unintended environmental costs. Asia and the Pacific are on the frontline of climate change and are responsible for about half of global annual carbon dioxide emissions.
The…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department