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Climate Change Updates: Paris Agreement, Rulebook, and Recent Developments

7 October 2019
Maria Cecilia T. Sicangco discussed the 2015 Paris Agreement and the events that transpired after it was signed, such as the September 2019 UN Climate Summit. She also talked about transboundary climate litigation, particularly how it affects the citizens of developing countries.

Ecosystem-based Adaptation Measures Available in the Xiangtan Climate Resilient City Toolbox

4 September 2019
In order to support cities in climate resilience planning and design, there are science-based tools available for hazard exposure and vulnerability analysis. Some tools present an overview of potential solutions and/or best practices to mitigate the risks. One of these tools is the Climate…

ADB Operational Priority 3: Tackling Climate Change, Disaster Resilience, and Environmental Sustainability

3 September 2019
This presentation gives an overview of ADB Operational Priority 3: Tackling climate change, building climate and disaster resilience, and enhancing environmental sustainability. Thirteen of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are relevant to or will be impacted by actions on climate change…

Using Open Knowledge to Improve Development Outcomes

29 August 2019
Many developing countries face gaps between their current reality and preferred future. Access to development knowledge is critical to overcome the gap and improve the lives of their people. In this session, Young Uck Kang explains how the solutions to many development challenges are available to…

Contributing to Development Asia

29 August 2019
Development Asia is the ADB’s knowledge collaboration platform for sharing development experience and expertise, best practice, and technology relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals. In this session, participants will learn how their governments can share their own development experiences,…

Financing Adaptation and Climate Resilience

29 August 2019
This presentation emphasized the urgent and scaled-up climate finance needs for Atoll nations, underscoring its accessibility and timeliness. It also discussed ADB's Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies, as well as the Oceans Financing Initiative.

Reflections on the Social, Political and Economic Sides of Adaptation  

29 August 2019
This presentation gave an overview of the session 5 discussions and presented key questions which were addressed by the session speakers.

Tuvalu Adaptation Projects

29 August 2019
This presentation gave a geographic overview of Tuvalu and shared a number of coastal protection measures being implemented to improve the island nation's resilience.

Digital by Default

28 August 2019
“Digital by default” is the assumption that information will be made publicly available in the interest of transparency, in contrast to historic approaches in which openness was an exception by conscious choice in particular circumstances. This approach means designing communications tactics and…

Learning from Each Other

28 August 2019
In this session, participants will have the opportunity to make a short 5-10 minute presentation to describe their work and share examples of their organization’s communications strengths and areas where they think it could be improved. The aim of this session is to both learn from other’s…