Putting Women at the Center of Adaptation Investments: The Potential of the CRPP Read more about Putting Women at the Center of Adaptation Investments: The Potential of the CRPP The Community Resilience Partnership Program aims to scale up investments in climate adaptation that address the nexus of climate, poverty and gender. The Program has established a gender window, the aim of which is to go beyond mainstreaming gender considerations in adaptation projects and to promote women-centered adaptation investments. Such investments recognize women’s role as “agents of change” in driving resilience.
Assessing & Reporting Sustainable Development Impacts of Climate Action – Introducing ADB’s New Tool Read more about Assessing & Reporting Sustainable Development Impacts of Climate Action – Introducing ADB’s New Tool ADB is developing a new methodology and a tool that aims to facilitate the quantitative assessment and reporting of the Sustainable Development (SD) impacts of climate action and their interlinkages with SDGs. This methodology will be operationalized through an Excel-based tool to ensure convenience, correctness, and consistency in the implementation of the methodology. The tool has been developed to benefit a broad range of stakeholders in conducting SD impact assessments of climate action, including both climate mitigation and adaptation.
Dieldre Harder Keywords ADB consultant water and sanitation climate change water Urban Development Read more about Dieldre Harder Dieldre is a freelance consultant who has been doing various research works in the water and sanitation sector for 15 years. She is currently involved with ADB as a WASH Survey Specialist for the preparation of the Survey Toolkit for the Urban Development and Water Projects.
Jindra Samson Keywords economics agricultural research natural resources climate change low-carbon growth economic analyses Read more about Jindra Samson Jindra is a senior economics officer at ERCD of ADB, where she contributes to various analytical research on agricultural and natural resources, climate change and low-carbon growth, economic analyses of investment projects, and country diagnostic studies.
Asa Sajise Keywords economics environmental and economic issues ecosystem services climate change Read more about Asa Sajise Asa is a professor at the Department of Economics of the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, where he has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in microeconomic theory and environmental economics since 2003. He is also part of the executive committee and a co-regional director for Luzon of the Economy and Environment Group – Philippines (EEG Philippines).
Prof. Taikan Oki Keywords global hydrology water resources sustainability virtual water trade water footprint climate change water Read more about Prof. Taikan Oki Prof. Oki is a Special Advisor to the President, and a Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. His previous academic positions include Associate Professor with the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo and Associate Professor with the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. He was also affiliated as the Senior Vice-Rector, United Nations University, Japan, and an Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations for 2016-2021.
ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: In-country Consultation with Government Read more about ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: In-country Consultation with Government The document outlines the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Safeguard Policy Update process, including stakeholder consultations, objectives, methodologies, and findings related to environmental and social safeguards.
AASCTF Climate Resilience and Nature-Based Solutions Program Read more about AASCTF Climate Resilience and Nature-Based Solutions Program The AASCTF Climate Resilience and Nature-Based Solutions Program thematic workshops were held in August and September 2022, which was designed to develop an understanding of the impact of flooding and climate change in cities and provided tools for assessing their own city’s context in which NbS can be applied.
Johannes Emmerling Keywords Economics and the Environment climate change Risk and Uncertainty Welfare Economics and Development Read more about Johannes Emmerling Johannes Emmerling is a Senior Researcher and Scientist at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (IEEE). He co-leads the Low Carbon Pathways unit. He was a Senior Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) between 2012 and 2018. Johannes holds a Ph.D. from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), an M.A. in Economics from the Free University Berlin, and a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Heidelberg. He was a postgraduate fellow in Development Cooperation at the German Development Institute, Bonn.