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Ocean Sun – A Unique Solution to Floating Solar

16 June 2020
Ocean Sun is a technology provider for floating PV systems and markets a proprietary technology based on photovoltaic modules mounted on a hydro-elastic membrane. The certified and robust platform minimizes the use of materials and enables direct cooling of the PV cells increasing the power output…

Building Resilience to Climate Risks in Business Operations and Infrastructure

16 June 2020
Building resilience and future-proofing systems to climate risks are difficult. We talked about the types of risks we need to prepare for, and some key solutions to unlock resilience, including technology for diagnosis, finance, and operations to create buffer and agility, and partnerships to share…

Enhancing Power System Resilience—Improving Power System Adaptation to Climate Change

16 June 2020
Asia is the region with the most frequent and most severe natural disasters in the world. With the coming of climate change, disaster as typhoon, flood, droughts are becoming more intense while threatening the safe operation of the power system. Rather than a passive response to climate change with…

Strengthening Urban Resilience: Integrating Inclusive Infrastructure, Energy, Climate and Health Systems

16 June 2020
In our response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are effectively undertaking a massive experiment where we disrupt our entire economy and how we work and live within it. This has implications for our health and infrastructure, as well as gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) linkages.…

Sustainable Biofuel Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges after the Pandemic

16 June 2020
Based on Covid-19 first analysis of impacts on the transport fuel sector, this presentation urged policymakers to act at two different timescales: 1) to provide support to meet short- and medium-term goals, such as assist fuel companies to overcome the collapse of demand and the economic shock,…

Global Opportunities through the IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme

16 June 2020
This presentation highlighted key potential areas for collaboration in light of the world changing pandemic. It also presented IEA Bioenergy’s strategic focus for the next five years as well as our planned key enabling research areas.

WCTRS COVID-19 Task Force: Aims, Action Plans, and Preliminary Recommendations

12 June 2020
The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) established a Task Force to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 and support emergent policy decisions on ways to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This Task Force also aim to maintain supply chains for the survival of industries and…

Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport Sector and Measures Agaisnt Public Health Threats: Policymaking Based on PASS Approach

12 June 2020
Considering the various uncertainties about COVID-19 and its impacts (especially long-term impacts), the presentation showed the findings of a study carried out by the WCTRS COVID-19 Task Force. A world-wide questionnaire survey of experts in the field of transportation and other relevant fields is…

gLOCAL Insights: Support to Sustainable Transport Solutions in light of the COVID-19 Crisis

3 June 2020
This presentation discussed key findings from the assessment of ADB's transport support between 2010 to 2018, and presented six recommendations on how ADB can further strengthen the development support of its ADB transport interventions.

Land Use Transport Interactions of High Speed Rail (HSR)

15 May 2020
Dr. Francesca Pagliara talks about her work on wider socioeconomic impacts of HSRs on mobility choices, mega cities, temporary offices, land prices and equity issues. Further, with her experience of co-editing two textbooks published by Springer on location choices, she shares insights about the…