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Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton shares stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton shares stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton shares stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Toward a National Eco-compensation Regulation in the People’s Republic of China

24 November 2016
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Deputy Director General Xiao Weiming and ADB East Asia Department Director General Ayumi Konishi opened the event and also launched the publication, Toward a National Eco-compensation Regulation in the PRC.…

An International Overview of Innovative Financing Instruments for Ecosystem Management, and Implications for the People's Republic of China

24 November 2016
Michael Bennett, Forest Trends senior researcher, outlined some of the major types of innovative approaches for conservation finance globally, and highlighted some of the main trends in the developments of these approaches. In the presentation, Bennett discussed the position of the People’s…

Mainstreaming Eco-Compensation into Development: The ADB Vision

24 November 2016
Alvin Lopez, ADB’s senior natural resources and agriculture specialist, delivered the keynote presentation at the 5th International Conference on Eco-compensation and Payments for Ecosystem Services on 24 November in Kunming. The presentation highlighted some of the key environmental challenges in…

EcoLoo: Sustainable Toilet for All

23 November 2016
About 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to water, sanitation, and hygiene. Offering people with a safe, hygienic, ergonomic, and economical comfort station, EcoLoo is a sustainable toilet that employs biotechnology and special enzyme to treat human waste and minimize the use of water.

How New York City Provides High Quality Unfiltered Drinking Water? Leveraging Regulation and Partnerships

23 November 2016
New York City’s drinking water supply system is one of the largest unfiltered water supply in the world. United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Douglas Pabst explains why it is cheaper to protect the water at the source than to treat it afterwards.

Targeted Analysis on Water Resources Management Issues

21 October 2016
In this presentation, Dr. Oyun Sanjaasuren discussed global and regional water security risks and challenges. She also shared how partnerships at the country, regional, and global levels can help address these issues, highlighting the impact and outcomes of Global Water Partnership (GWP) efforts…

Dhaka Water: Thinking of a System-Side Solution

30 September 2016
Poverty is deep-rooted in economic, political, and social processes in Bangladesh. The uneven ownership of productive assets, lack of skills and knowledge, inadequate development of infrastructure, frequent natural disasters, low levels of urbanization are the main causes of poverty. Among the…