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.
Leadership for Adaptation in Albay, Philippines Read more about Leadership for Adaptation in Albay, Philippines This presentation showcase how the Philippine province of Albay successfully mitigated socio-economic impacts of calamities through disaster risk reduction on a zero casualty goal. It also presented comprehensive information on it various activities and provincial policies through effective implementation.
ADB Driving Innovation and Delivering Results to Meet PRC’s Climate Change Mitigation Challenges Read more about ADB Driving Innovation and Delivering Results to Meet PRC’s Climate Change Mitigation Challenges This presentation explains the role of ADB in supporting China implement its Clean Energy Development through innovation, policy and financing.
Climate Change Policies and Governance: Empowering the Most Vulnerable Read more about Climate Change Policies and Governance: Empowering the Most Vulnerable This presentation highlights the importance of utilizing the vulnerable countries’ and communities’ experience in the development of global solutions and policies.
Adaptation Through Resilience Strengthening Read more about Adaptation Through Resilience Strengthening This presentation explains the characteristics of climate change adaptation, and distinguishes between climate change mitigation and adaptation. It also explains how resilience plays an integral part in the decision making process to address climate change.
Creating and Sharing Knowledge on Community-Based Adaptation Read more about Creating and Sharing Knowledge on Community-Based Adaptation This presentation explains the top-down approach of community-based adaptation and why local community good practices are at the center of the approach.
Leadership in Action: The Albay, Philippine Experience Read more about Leadership in Action: The Albay, Philippine Experience This presentation discusses the experience of Albay province in the Philippines in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. It highlights the crucial role of leadership in making DRR efforts effective.
Cindy Cisneros-Tiangco Keywords clean energy solar PV and battery storage systems solar thermal wind hydro geothermal efficient lighting landfill gas to power biodiesel biomass climate change mitigation renewable energy Read more about Cindy Cisneros-Tiangco Dr. Cindy Cisneros-Tiangco is the Director of Emerging Areas, ADB Energy Sector Group.
Viet Nam: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals, Policies, and City Sanitation Strategies Read more about Viet Nam: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals, Policies, and City Sanitation Strategies There is a need to review the institutional, social, technical, and financial issues surrounding the delivery of water supply and sanitation services in Viet Nam. The review is critical to the successful implementation of the city sanitation strategies proposed by Asian Development Bank.
Aiming Zhou Keywords clean energy climate change mitigation Low Carbon Development system engineering Environmental Policies Energy Engineering Read more about Aiming Zhou Aiming has over 25 years of professional experience, including more than 13 years in ADB. Prior to his current position, he was Senior Advisor to the Vice-President (Operations 1). He also served as Principal Energy Specialist for South Asia, secretary of ADB’s Energy Community of Practice, and focal point for the Clean Energy Program. He has a doctoral degree in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and a master’s in System Engineering (Energy) from Tsinghua University.