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Crafting Compelling Messages

2 June 2017
This installment of the Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series discusses the importance of crafting catchy messages that can hook target audiences. Framing your ideas as compelling messages helps you get the attention of key stakeholders. Creating a compelling narrative makes them want to work with you…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Improving Public Transportation in Tbilisi

31 May 2017
Learn how ADB and its partners are working to promote sustainable urban transport in Tbilisi, Georgia. ADB's Mookiah Thiruchelvam and Cities Development Initiative for Asia's (CDIA) Neil Chadder presented an overview of ADB’s Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program for Tbilisi and discussed…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Innovative Solutions for Transport Challenges in Asia

23 March 2017
French transport companies in this learning event presented on their expertise in transport efficiency and safety, and introduced good practices in urban transport planning. MDP Consulting & Engineering’s Sarah Bittam discussed about designing new solutions to urban transport challenges.
Organizer: Transport Sector Office

Elevating Sustainable Urban Transport Systems through Aerial Metro

6 March 2017
Benjamin Fauchier Delavigne and Charlotte Riche of POMA, a leader in ropeway transportation since 1936 with subsidiaries on five continents, discussed aerial ropeway transport system as an alternative urban transport option. They also shared best practices from South America and discussed how they…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office

Congestion, Mobility, and Accessibility in Emerging Cities

22 February 2017
Gilles Duranton, professor and chair of Wharton School's Real Estate Department, spoke on urban congestion in emerging cities. He proposed an integrated framework to think about accessibility, mobility, and congestion consistently, and showed that progress can be made by combining economics with…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Transport Sector Office

Developing Judicial Capacity for Adjudicating Climate Change and Sustainable Development Issues: Training on Environmental Law

14 December 2016
The TA will assist judiciaries develop seminal jurisprudence responsive to climate change and sustainable development issues as follows: (i) by exposing them to global and regional developments in this field, especially emerging concepts, principles, and jurisprudence from different jurisdictions…
Organizer: Office of the General Counsel

UN Climate Change Conference: Outcomes and Implications

1 December 2016
Find out the outcomes of the 22nd Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in this Insight Thursday session. ADB's Preety Bhandari and Christian Ellermann reported on the highlights of the 22nd Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

First Green Business Forum: Investing in Asia and the Pacific

22 to 24 November 2016
ADB hosted its first Green Business Forum with the aim to: (i) provide a networking platform to share lessons and knowledge among green business leaders, government officials, and other stakeholders in the region; and (ii) raise the profile and expand the focus of green investments beyond…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Building Climate Resilience in the Urban Health Sector

19 September 2016
ADB's Virinder Sharma, in this Health Talks Session, gave an overview of the Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund. He focused on how the said Trust Fund can support the health sector, particularly the vulnerable population.
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office

Paving Clean and Low-Carbon Energy and Transport Systems using Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

16 September 2016
Current transport systems rely heavily on fossil fuels. Improving transport systems require major decarbonization, such as by optimizing low-carbon technologies like hydrogen and fuel cells. This workshop aimed to be a forward-thinking knowledge exchange on current applications of hydrogen and fuel…
Organizer: Transport Sector Office