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Terms Sheet and Bid Parameters on Solid Waste Action Plan: Buriram, Thailand

30 November 2016
Up to 10 billon metric tons of solid waste is generated annually from urban households, commerce, industry, and construction globally. This is bound to increase further as populations grow and migration from rural to urban areas occurs with wealth and consumption inevitably rising, prompting the…

Terms Sheet and Bid Parameters on Solid Waste Action Plan: Mahasarakham

30 November 2016
Up to 10 billon metric tons of solid waste is generated annually from urban households, commerce, industry, and construction globally. This is bound to increase further as populations grow and migration from rural to urban areas occurs with wealth and consumption inevitably rising, prompting the…

Practical Experiences in Combining Poverty and Environment at the National Level: The National Greening Program of the Philippines

24 November 2016
The Philippines’ remaining forest cover accounts for only 23% of the country’s land area. This compelled then President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III to issue Executive Order (EO) No. 23, immediately banning logging in natural forests and intensified forest protection. On 24 February 2011, EO No. 26…

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton shares stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton shares stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton shares stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton share stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Toward a National Eco-compensation Regulation in the People’s Republic of China

24 November 2016
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Deputy Director General Xiao Weiming and ADB East Asia Department Director General Ayumi Konishi opened the event and also launched the publication, Toward a National Eco-compensation Regulation in the PRC.…

An International Overview of Innovative Financing Instruments for Ecosystem Management, and Implications for the People's Republic of China

24 November 2016
Michael Bennett, Forest Trends senior researcher, outlined some of the major types of innovative approaches for conservation finance globally, and highlighted some of the main trends in the developments of these approaches. In the presentation, Bennett discussed the position of the People’s…

Progress in Payment for Forest Environmental Services in Viet Nam

24 November 2016
Pham Hong Luong, director of the Department of Planning and Finance, Viet Nam Administration of Forestry, provided a briefing on Viet Nam’s payment for forest environmental services (PFES). PFES was piloted in 2008 in two provinces, Son La and Lam Dong, and replicated throughout the country in 2011…