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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
22 July 2021
Online via Zoom, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Manila time (GMT+8)
The virtual 2021 International Climate Change Conference provided a platform to discuss international practices that can help the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries such as Indonesia transition into a low-carbon economy…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department
3 June 2020
The Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogues is exploring measures that can help economies “bounce back” from the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate economic recovery. The series of Dialogues will address a range of issues, including: good practices in national planning for “…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department
17 to 21 June 2019
ADB, with support from the European Space Agency and in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing of the Republic of Indonesia, conducted a training on 17-21 June in Jakarta on the use of high-technology innovation to support development projects. Hosted by the Indonesia's National…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department