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Moving Forward with Clean Energy - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series

7 December 2015
Priyantha Wijayatunga, ADB's Principal Energy Specialist, discusses clean energy development issues and trends in this webinar presentation.

Making Renewable Energy a Success in Bangladesh: Getting the Business Model Right

1 December 2015
More than three quarters of Bangladeshis in rural areas have no electricity in their homes, forcing the villagers to complete their work during daylight. This paper analyzes the success of the solar home system program in Bangladesh, which today provides clean and reliable electricity to millions…

VAN: Strengthening Implementation Capacity for EIA — Operations Manual

30 November 2015
This manual also provides an overview for other agencies and project proponents should they wish to explore the environmental permitting process under the Environmental Protection and Conservation Act (EPC Act) in detail. Guidelines have been specifically developed for applicants and others to…

VAN: Strengthening Implementation Capacity for EIA — Operations Manual

30 November 2015
This manual also provides an overview for other agencies and project proponents should they wish to explore the environmental permitting process under the Environmental Protection and Conservation Act (EPC Act) in detail. Guidelines have been specifically developed for applicants and others to…

Session Video - Urban Development and Regional Cooperation and Integration: Where is the Interface?

9 November 2015
Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Pradeep Srivastava, in this presentation, provides a brief overview of regional cooperation and integration (RCI). He highlights the importance of recognizing space in regional cooperation, which produces a different type of RCI. The applications that have become the…

INO: Strengthening Capacity of Indonesia’s AMDAL System — Final Report

31 October 2015
The Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) is an analysis toward significant impact of an activity plan designed for environment as required in decision making process for the implementation of the mentioned plan in Indonesia,which has established on 1982. In three (3) recent decades, this EIA system…

Agence Française de Développement's Contribution to Renewable Energies

8 October 2015
This presentation provides a general overview of Agence Française de Développement (AFD). It shows how AFD meets the cross-cutting objective of supporting low-carbon, climate resilient development paths through its ongoing projects in Indonesia. AFD’s contribution to sustain the Center of…

Possible Contribution to the Center of Excellence Strategy of University of Tokyo's Center for Spatial Information Science

8 October 2015
This presentation features the collaboration between University of Tokyo’s Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) and Asian Development Bank. The technologies developed by CSIS for the energy sector, particularly geospatial information and technologies, are examined in detail.

Yap Renewable Energy Development Project: Breaking the Reliance on Fossil Fuels

1 October 2015
A combination of forces threatens the energy sector in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), leading to high electricity costs. In 2013, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) collaborated with FSM to strategically harness and maximize renewable energy sources in an energy mix…

Bangladesh–India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project: South Asia’s First Interconnection of Two National Grids

1 October 2015
The People’s Republic of Bangladesh is grappling with energy deficiencies in the face of rapidly increasing demand for energy. To help bridge the energy gap in the country, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) assisted Bangladesh in securing energy supply from India through a cross-border grid…