Sunae Kim Keywords agriculture value chain development rural financing climate change adaptation farmers organizations small scale renewable energy and innovative agri technologies Read more about Sunae Kim Sunae works on ADB’s operations on agriculture and rural development in South Asia.
Bapon Fakhruddin Keywords hydrological risk assessment. climate change water climate change adaptation water resources management Read more about Bapon Fakhruddin Dr Fakhruddin is an eminent hydro-meteorologist and disaster risk assessor with 20 years’ global experience in hydro-meteorology and climate resilience projects. His key areas of expertise are hazards forecasting, climate and multi-hazard risk assessments and coastal community resilience.
Julie Rozenberg Keywords economy green growth climate change climate change mitigation climate change adaptation Read more about Julie Rozenberg Julie Rozenberg is an Economist with the World Bank Sustainable Development Group. Her work includes green growth, climate change mitigation strategies and climate change adaptation and disaster risk management.
Albert Salamanca Keywords natural resources management sustainable livelihoods climate change adaptation Stockholm Environment Institute SEI resilience risk and vulnerabilities mobility and spatial linkages disaster displacement settlement change Read more about Albert Salamanca Albert is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute's Asia Centre where he leads its Climate Change, Disasters and Development Cluster. He has over 15 years of experience working on natural resources management, sustainable livelihoods, and climate change adaptation issues in several countries in Southeast Asia. His current research interests are on the themes of resilience, risk and vulnerabilities, mobility and spatial linkages, disaster displacement, and settlement change.
Ian Wood Keywords climate change adaptation disaster risk management Program planning and project management Hydraulic and hydrologic modelling water resources management Flood and disaster risk assessment Flood and disaster risk management planning Urban stormwater management Read more about Ian Wood As Team Leader and Climate Change Specialist to ADB’s Knowledge Support and Technical Assistance (KSTA) Project on Strengthening Integrated Flood Risk Management (TA 9634-REG), Ian Wood draws on 35 years of experience working in the water resources and flood management sectors, and over half of this experience has been in southeast Asia.
Accessing Climate Finance to Support Low-Carbon Actions Read more about Accessing Climate Finance to Support Low-Carbon Actions Learn how to use nationally appropriate mitigation actions as instrument to catalyze climate finance. This presentation discusses the role of climate finance to achieve sustainable transport. It also explains how to integrate climate finance into traditional financing for the transport sector.
Pacific, Climate Change, and State-Owned Enterprises Read more about Pacific, Climate Change, and State-Owned Enterprises State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the Pacific provide core public infrastructure services but its support of climate change adaptation has seen a number of challenges. This presentation discusses ADB’s Green Climate Fund Financing and how it helps leverage private sector involvement with climate financing in SOEs in the Pacific.
Sustainable Urban Transport: Realizing the New Climate Change Agenda and Initiatives in BRT and Road Safety - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series Read more about Sustainable Urban Transport: Realizing the New Climate Change Agenda and Initiatives in BRT and Road Safety - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series With the recent global agreements on climate change mitigation and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), transport and urban development specialists are saying that now is the right time to implement green transport projects.
Leadership and Communication Challenges for Climate Change Aspects of Development Projects - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series Read more about Leadership and Communication Challenges for Climate Change Aspects of Development Projects - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series Matthias Gelber discussses the importance of communication and leadership after COP21.
Ecosystem Based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Read more about Ecosystem Based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Ecosystems evolve and change over time, and are naturally resilient and adaptable up to some rate of change. They also have a crucial role in disaster risk management. Get to know why and how ecosystem based adaptation (EBA) has become a buzzword in the field of climate change and disaster risk management.