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Climate Litigation: A Suitable Discourse for China’s Green Courts?

7 November 2018
The value of environmental justice is becoming increasingly prominent in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). As climate litigation is a more recent discourse, it might be a challenge to transplant it into PRC directly. Nonetheless, climate litigation is one of the four case types handled by PRC’s…

How Corporate Foresight Can Help Developing Institutions Manage Knowledge

7 November 2018
To build a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, the region needs to build thought leadership, agenda-shaping capability, and execution ability. Firms drive development through scenarios, radars, and platforms as key strategic foresight tools. This presentation…

Results Measurement on Knowledge: A View from the Private Sector

6 November 2018
Knowledge results in performance. The more knowledge one has, the better one can perform. The more one learns from performance, the more knowledge one has. It creates a reinforcement cycle that continuously improve knowledge and performance.

Simulation of Rainfed Rice Yields Under Climate Change, Cambodia

10 October 2018
Simulation of Rainfed Rice Yields Under Climate Change, Cambodia

Novel Technique and Instrument for Early-warning of Pollution and Identification of Pollution Discharge Source

3 October 2018
Novel Technique and Instrument for Early-warning of Pollution and Identification of Pollution Discharge Source

Disaster Contingent Financing in the Pacific

26 September 2018
There is a strong demand for contingent financing in the Pacific. Gaps in quick-disbursing funds, acculumation of indirect costs over time, and rapid prioritzation of needs increase demand for this type of financing. This presentation shares Tonga's experience in the utilization of contingent…

Climate Change: The Politics of Action and Finance

20 September 2018
Tracking and reporting financial flows is needed to help measure the effectiveness of climate actions. This also helps in building trust and accountability and to monitor trends and progress. In this presentation, Pretty Bhandari, ADB’s Director for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management,…

Climate Finance Tracking: Joint MDB Approach

20 September 2018
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 worked together to develop methodologies for tracking their climate finance flows. This helps ensure that mitigation and adaptation finance flows are consistent, comparable, and transparent. This presentation provides a snapshot of how the MDBs joint…

Counting Mitigation Finance-MDB Approach

20 September 2018
For an activity to be considered under climate mitigation, it should help promote the reduction of green house gases (GHG) emission or enhance GHG sequestration. This presentation gives a closer look at the approach used by multilateral development banks (MDBs) in mitigation finance tracking.

Adaptation Finance

20 September 2018
Climate adaptation finance is the cost of activities undertaken to lower the current and expected risks to or vulnerabilities of the project, or community, economy or the environment posed by climate change. This presentation tackles the adaptation finance’s key elements and adaptation finance…