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Video: Climate and Disaster Resilience

This session discusses ADB's frameworks for strengthening resilience through CPS and projects.

Video: Low-carbon Transition: Introduction

This session introduces ADB's work on climate mitigation and fostering a just transition to net zero.

Video: Carbon Pricing and Carbon Finance

This session introduces greenhouse gas emission accounting, low-carbon technologies, and carbon finance.

How Disaster Resilient Loans Strengthen Fiscal Resilience of DMCs

This presentation explains how Disaster Resilient Loans (DRL) operate as a financing tool to strengthen disaster preparedness and recovery, and how they complement ADB’s Crisis Response Toolkit.

Gender and Climate Change Nexus

The presentation explores the critical intersection between gender and climate change, highlighting how climate impacts differ for women and men across various contexts.

2025 Resilience Learning Month

The Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management divisions of the Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment cluster (CCRE) under the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department (CCSD), in partnership with the Culture and Talent Division of the Budget, Personnel, and Management Systems Department (BPMSD), organized a series of virtual and in-person learning events for the 2025 Resilience Learning Month.

Shohei Okano

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climate change

Shohei Okano is an Environment and Carbon Market Specialist in the Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster of Asian Development Bank. He manages the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JFJCM), works on air quality management, and collaborates with Japan’s Ministry of the Environment on environmental and carbon market issues. He previously served 20 years at the Ministry, covering GHG inventory, blue carbon, climate adaptation, GHG observing satellite (GOSAT series), climate negotiations, disaster waste management, and environmental standards.