Case Study: Circular Economy in the People’s Republic of China
This presentation gives an overview of the brief history of the CE policies in the PRC and what has inspired the policies/legal frameworks to be passed.
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This presentation gives an overview of the brief history of the CE policies in the PRC and what has inspired the policies/legal frameworks to be passed.
This presentation gives an overview of the GPT, where it is now, the topics discussed in the INC4, and how can ADB support DMCs during the intersessional period.
Dr. Nur Hazwani Abdul Bahar is currently the Head of Conservation Programmes at Forest House, a conservation-oriented landscaping company in Malaysia. She is responsible for developing Forest House conservation projects and strategies aimed at nurturing knowledge and the conservation of local forest trees. Previously, she worked at Nature-Based Solutions, where she conducted reviews of Environmental, Social, and Governance policies and practices of companies in Pahang. Her team’s efforts contributed to the recent gazettement of the 134,183-hectare Al-Sultan Abdullah
The Asian Development Bank, in collaboration with the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), hosted a regional capacity building workshop: Accelerating Investments for Plastics Circularity, 26-27 June 2024, Jakarta, Indonesia.
This presentation highlights and discusses best practices and lessons learned from the Netherlands’ experience on solid waste management.
Arnold Tukker is a Professor of Industrial Ecology and the Scientific Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University. He also serves as a senior researcher at TNO, a large Dutch not-for-profit research organization. Arnold has set up prominent EU projects in the field of sustainable product design (SusProNet) and sustainable consumption and production (SCORE!) and was a core member of the Dutch Knowledge Network on Sustainable System Innovations.
Professor Kathryn Bowen is a Professor and Deputy Director of Knowledge Translation and Policy Impact at the Melbourne Climate Futures and a Professor of Environment, Climate and Global Health at the University of Melbourne.
Prof. Pradip Swarnakar is an environmental sociologist specialized in climate change policy, social network analysis, and sustainability transition.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, the Department of Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco, USA, the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH-UFZ, Germany.
The ADB’s Solid Waste Management Community of Practice facilitated a knowledge-sharing session on 21 May. The session aimed to highlight and discuss best practices and lessons learned from the Netherlands’ experience on solid waste management.
The session featured its keynote speaker, Prof. Arnold Tukker from the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University.