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3 September 2020
During the cold winter days most citizens often idle their car engines for long periods to warm the engine and interior. This unnecessarily wastes fuel, costs money, causes excess engine wear and tear, and produces greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and harmful air pollutants.
The proposed Block…
Organizer: Central and West Asia Department
2 September 2020
Asia and the Pacific is grappling with the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. A collective response will be needed to contain the loss of life and address this evolving human crisis. Returning to “business as usual” is not an option for a region that is already off-track to…
Organizer: Office of the Vice-President (Sectors and Themes)
24 to 28 August 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on transport and human mobility. Almost overnight, both the systems of transport and our assumptions of modern mobility – of its availability, and accessibility – vanished. Cities, states, and countries went into quarantine lockdowns to slow…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office
24 August 2020
The Office of Anticorruption and Integrity (OAI) shared anticorruption efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic being implemented by ADB and the Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific. OAI's Cholpon Mambetova also discussed mitigation measures and OECD policy recommendations to ensure that these…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity
12 to 26 August 2020
ADB undertakes Business Opportunities Seminars (BOSs) in its members to improve the interest and ability of eligible suppliers to locate ADB business opportunities, prepare high-quality and responsive bids, and understand ADB’s procurement and anticorruption procedures. For 2020, a series of…
Organizer: Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department
28 July 2020
More than 130 participants from the member countries and jurisdictions of the Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific (ACI), observer countries, advisory group, Philippine Commission on Audit, OECD, and ADB joined the webinar on Safeguarding Integrity in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery held…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity
26 June 2020
This ADBI-World Conference of Transport Research Society (WCTRS) webinar featured Prof. Michael Wegener, Professor (retired) and former Director of the Institute of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, Germany. Prof. Wegener examined the impacts of high-speed rail (HSR) on spatial development…
Organizer: ADBI
12 June 2020
This webinar featured Prof. Yoshitsugu Hayashi of Chubu University (Japan) and Prof. Junyi Zhang of Hiroshima University (Japan). The speakers are spearheading the COVID-19 Task Force of WCTR Society and have shared their insights about the sustainability and resiliency of transport and living work…
Organizer: ADBI
5 June 2020
This webinar featured Satish V. Ukkusuri of Purdue University who discussed how mobility data can be used to understand how cities can recover after major shocks, such as natural disasters and pandemics. Ukkusuri focused on the role of mobile phone and social media data to understand the recovery…
Organizer: ADBI
3 June 2020
The Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogues is exploring measures that can help economies “bounce back” from the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate economic recovery. The series of Dialogues will address a range of issues, including: good practices in national planning for “…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department