Louis Verchot Keywords RDFS Forum RDFS Forum 2022 rdfs tg food security rural development agricultural value chains agriculture and natural resources smart agriculture forestry agriculture issues deforestation greenhouse gas emissions land-use change peatland degradation Read more about Louis Verchot Dr. Louis Verchot is a Principal Scientist and Lead of the Land Restoration Group at the Alliance Bioversity – CIAT, based in Colombia. He has been working throughout the tropics on forestry and agriculture issues with a climate change focus for the past 35 years. His work in Asia focuses on deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use change, peatland degradation, and REDD+, among others. He has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2003, and recently was a lead author on the Special Report on Climate Change and Land.
Yuichi Arita Keywords greenhouse gas emissions energy management climate change climate adaptation climate mitigation renewable energy energy efficiency clean energy energy policies energy planning energy security Read more about Yuichi Arita Yuichi Arita is a director for the Overseas Environmental Project Department in City of Kitakyushu, Japan. He has three years of experience in "Kitakyushu Asia Center for Low Carbon Society" established in 2010 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Asian region by support for technological transfer, training experts, and information dissemination. He has been in charge of several projects related to energy management, recycling and waste management in collaboration with local governments in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Palau.
Welcome Remarks Read more about Welcome Remarks ADB is committed to supporting low carbon city development efforts consistent with the global climate goals. Cities play crucial role in providing better life. For a long time, our cities are experiencing significant population and economic growth through carbon-intensive industrialization, urban sprawl and migration, and environmental pollution. In her welcome remarks, ADB's M. Teresa Kho notes how the Forum serves as a platform to address challenges and present innovative solutions and tools.
High-Level Technology Public-Private Seminar Read more about High-Level Technology Public-Private Seminar ADB is promoting the use of high-level technologies across the infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy, water, and urban development. Such technologies will help lower greenhouse gas emissions and raise development impacts, among other advantages.
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.
Waste-to-Fuel Technology Training Read more about Waste-to-Fuel Technology Training “Transport and climate change” is one of the priority pillars identified under the Asian Development Bank's Sustainable Transport Initiative Operational Plan, 2010 (STI-OP). Transport investments or the use of transport typically lead to increases in greenhouse gas emissions, and so increased knowledge and capacity on how to mitigate emissions to the extent possible will significantly benefit the transport sector.