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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

SECURE Webinar 18: Blueprints to Breakthroughs: Enhancing Vaccine Manufacturing Ecosystems in DMCs

24 October 2024
The SECURE Webinar 18 is a collaboration with ADB’s Human and Social Development Office’s Solutions Development Working Group on Health Systems Strengthening (HSD-SDWG HSS), focusing on vaccine manufacturing and regulatory ecosystems. This 90-minute virtual event spotlighted ADB's initiatives to…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office, Southeast Asia Department

Luang Prabang Smart and Integrated Urban Strategy Launch

5 October 2023
The Luang Prabang Provincial and City governments, Australian Embassy in the Lao PDR, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched the Luang Prabang Smart and Integrated Urban Strategy on 5 October 2023 in Luang Prabang City. Over 40 officials, business leaders, and development partners joined…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

ADB's Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS 2023): Imagining a Net-Zero ASEAN

30 March 2023
Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change. At present, climate impacts in the region continue to grow more severe, disproportionately impacting vulnerable communities, and placing millions at risk of being thrown back into extreme poverty.…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

SECURE Webinar 6: Climate Change and Post-COVID-19 Health Security

3 February 2023
Climate change affects human health through a variety of mechanisms, including impacts on air quality, the spread of disease, food security, and extreme weather events. One way that climate change can affect air quality is through the increase in ground-level ozone, which is a harmful air…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department, Human and Social Development Sector Office

SECURE Webinar 5: Strengthening Health System Resilience against Climate Change in Indonesia

9 December 2022
The fifth SECURE webinar discussed lessons learned from Indonesia's experience on health and climate policy-making and governance, ongoing actions, and recommended strategies and ways it can help strengthen the resilience of health systems and inform the harnessing of strong health systems as key…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department, Human and Social Development Sector Office

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

Better Local Business Environments for Pandemic Recovery in Southeast Asia

29 June 2022
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Southeast Asian economies, accounting for an average of 97% of all businesses and 69% of the national labor force across the region. However, SMEs face unique challenges as they have limited capital, resources, and staff; short life…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

SECURE Webinar 3: COVID-19 Vaccination Programs and Climate Change

28 June 2022
The SECURE Webinar Series #3: COVID-19 Vaccination Programs and Climate Change brought together experts, scholars, and practitioners to share experiences and observations over climate change and health issues that beset the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination programs globally, and to help…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office, Southeast Asia Department

Youth in Action: Driving Solutions for Sustainable Tourism

17 March 2022
This session was part of the larger Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS), ADB's preeminent development policy forum for the Southeast Asia region. ADB Youth for Asia (YfA), an initiative under the NGO and Civil Society Center, organized the "Youth in Action: Driving Solutions for…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department