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Nature-based Solutions for Cities

4 April 2018
Re-examine the importance of nature-based solutions (NBS) to help achieve water management objectives. NBS for water promote innovativeness by embedding the perspectives of ecosystem services, enhanced resilience, and livelihood considerations in water planning and management. Biomimicry is a…

Energy Transition in Asia: Leapfrogging Development

4 April 2018
With over 400 million people without access to electricity and modern fuels, energy poverty persists in Asia. To assist the region leapfrog into a low-carbon economy, ADB has committed to continue investing in the energy sector, introduce new technologies that harness clean energy and improve…

Smart Grid Methodologies and Models to Address Affordability, Sustainability, and System Reliability and Resilience

4 April 2018
What are the tools necessary to develop pathways to facilitate an orderly transition from the old grid to smarter grids and low-carbon systems? How can models be designed to address affordability, sustainability, and system reliability? System resilience to extreme weather conditions is also an…

What is Smart Grid? What are the Social Risks, Benefits, Opportunities?

3 April 2018
From classical to current power systems to smart grid, the transition between energy systems entails challenges but also provides opportunities to invest in smarter infrastructure by incorporating socio-economic aspects in engineering models. Moving towards a whole system approach in meeting a…

Flexibility Services in the Future Smart Grid

3 April 2018
Transformative changes in the power sector demand flexibility services for system planning and operation. This presentation shares research findings of the University of Peradeniya on smart grid. It also discusses distributed renewable energy resources and how they can be best utilized to support…

What is Smart Grid? What are the Social Risks, Benefits, and Opportunities?

3 April 2018
How can the global energy trilemma or quadlemma be solved? How can energy that is sustainable, reliable and secure, and affordable be delivered? Why is it important to rethink engineering models that incorporate socio-economic aspects in the transition to sustainable low-carbon energy systems?…

How Safe are Your Roads? Lessons from Tajikistan

22 March 2018
Road safety has an economic impact. Even the Sustainable Development Goals recognize this by including it under Target 3.6: "By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents”. This presentation shares Tajikistan's efforts in promoting road safety, particularly its…

Agricultural Market Efforts in Southeast Asia: Case of Myanmar and Thailand

16 March 2018
Natural hazards such as floods and drought increasingly occur due to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change. To cope with the adverse effects of climate change, familiarization of agricultural insurance as an adaptation measure is needed especially by developing world farmers…

Climate Change and Financing

15 March 2018
ADB has committed to double its annual climate financing by year 2020. This presentation discusses ADB’s approaches to climate finance mobilization and shares some examples of projects that support environmentally sustainable growth.

Dignity Rights and Climate Justice

27 February 2018
While courts are necessary, they are not sufficient in the struggle for climate justice. Courts must recognize not only the limitations of the political branches and the private sector, but also their potential. They must work together with government and civil society to impel effective solutions…