Capacity Development Course Read more about Capacity Development Course Forty-one ADB staff from headquarters and resident missions completed seven interactive, half-day virtual workshops of the 2023 Resilience Learning Month (RLM) capacity development course from 26 September to 17 October. This year’s course tackled carbon pricing and carbon finance, climate finance, climate and disaster resilience, Paris alignment, and post-disaster and emergency assistance.
Seismic Risk: A Changing Landscape Read more about Seismic Risk: A Changing Landscape This session convened two leading experts to share the latest developments and learning that can inform the work of ADB and its member countries in strengthening understanding of seismic risk and building resilience.
2023 Resilience Learning Month Read more about 2023 Resilience Learning Month In celebration of Resilience Learning Month (RLM) 2023, ADB has organized a series of online events and capacity-building workshops that highlight regional and global innovation and lessons learned on tackling climate change and building climate and disaster resilience, delivered in partnership with ADB operations departments and sector and thematic groups.
iACT iTalk Shorts: Loopholes in Policy Read more about iACT iTalk Shorts: Loopholes in Policy When it comes to protecting sovereign wealth funds from those who might wish to exploit them, what can governments to ensure their policies safeguard development projects from corruption? Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journalist Bradley’s Hope, answers.
iACT iTalk Shorts: Risks to Sovereign Wealth Funds Read more about iACT iTalk Shorts: Risks to Sovereign Wealth Funds What are the risks to sovereign wealth funds that development professionals should be aware of? Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journalist Bradley’s Hope, answers.
Protecting Climate Finance from Corruption Read more about Protecting Climate Finance from Corruption When governance fails, the consequences can derail entire nations from their development paths. How can development professionals protect projects from corruption? Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journalist Bradley’s Hope, answers.
V Anantha Nageswaran Keywords climate change Read more about V Anantha Nageswaran Prior to his appointment as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India in January 2022, Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran was a writer, author, teacher and consultant.
Bradley Hope Keywords anticorruption integrity climate change Read more about Bradley Hope Bradley is the co-author of Billion Dollar Whale, Blood and Oil and author of The Rebel and the Kingdom. He spent seven years breaking stories and leading investigations at the Wall Street Journal from New York and London. Before that, he covered the Arab Spring from Cairo, Tripoli and Beirut. He started his career as a police reporter at the New York Sun in Manhattan. He is a Pulitzer finalist and a winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting.
Mikiko Kainuma Keywords global climate climate change Read more about Mikiko Kainuma Dr. Mikiko Kainuma is a senior research advisor of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), an Honorary Research Fellow of National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and a Secretary General of Leveraging a Carbon Neutral Society Strategic Research Network (LCS-RNet). Since 1990, she has developed the Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM), which assesses policy options for stabilizing the global climate, particularly in the Asian-Pacific region with researchers at NIES, Kyoto University and several institutes in Asia.
Jingnan Hu Keywords air pollution control climate change environment Read more about Jingnan Hu Dr. Jingnan HU is the director of Atmospheric Environment Institute at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES). He has long been engaged in the research of regional air pollution prevention and control, and vehicle emission control. He has presided over a number of national research projects and achieved innovative research outcomes in the field of atmospheric environment, providing scientific and technological supports for winning the "Blue Sky Protection Campaign" in China.