Coastal Capital: Ecosystem Valuation for Decision Making in the Caribbean Read more about Coastal Capital: Ecosystem Valuation for Decision Making in the Caribbean This document highlights the importance and value of the coastal ecosystem in the Caribbean.
MARES TA Presentation April 2021 Read more about MARES TA Presentation April 2021 This Presentations introduces the MARES TA and provides some insight into its focus.
ADB Data Room: Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism for Ecosystem Services Read more about ADB Data Room: Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism for Ecosystem Services Humanity is becoming increasingly aware of the challenges to the health of our Oceans. Extractive Industries (fishing and mining) take more than they replace. By capturing excess energy in our oceans to make non-polluting fuels, we can support coastal livelihoods and the natural capital which underpins these communities. This TA aims to show how we can enhance ocean health by concentrating investment on four core areas - Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism.
Robert Adamczyk Keywords banking finance environment renewable energy power Manufacturing Read more about Robert Adamczyk Robert is a Polish national with over 25 years of experience in ESG issues, with a focus on industry, manufacturing, services, and the power sector, notably renewable energy. He also has years of experience in impact investing and capital market transactions. He has been working for over 25 years where he is a Senior Environmental Advisor within the EBRD’s Environment and Sustainability Department (ESD). He is the lead specialist and sector leader in the Group for Power and heavy industry sectors and coordinator of the power sector in ESD.
Reinventing the Grid for a Fully Decarbonized and Resilient Future Read more about Reinventing the Grid for a Fully Decarbonized and Resilient Future Reinventing the Grid will discuss how the transmission and distribution grid would need to be designed to accommodate a fully decarbonized future, while simultaneously coping with climate change acute and chronic impact, using California as a case study. The session encompassed the total system architecture impacts of the changes in physical and operational layer architecture and the advanced technologies that will ultimately be needed to execute this transformation.
Is Electric Power Industry Ready for 5G? Read more about Is Electric Power Industry Ready for 5G? 5G is positioned as the key technologies to support Energy Internet as a reliable and secure communication infrastructure that provides ubiquitous connectivity for Energy Internet. This presentation summarized various existing and future communication services for domains such as generation, transmission, distribution, and power consumption. It also discussed the network architecture design for various applications to provide connectivity or serve as the redundant communication channel to provide improve the communication system reliability and resiliency for the power grid.
“Growing” Low Cost Engineered Barrier Reefs for Coastal Protection and Beach Restoration & Erosion Control Read more about “Growing” Low Cost Engineered Barrier Reefs for Coastal Protection and Beach Restoration & Erosion Control Coral reefs protect against natural hazards by reducing wave energy by an average of 97%. Reef crests alone dissipate up to 86% of this energy. Mineral Accretion Technology, which is more than 40 years old, can be used to grow protective barrier reefs using pre-fabricated steel structures and low-voltage electricity (similar to that used for charging mobile phones) to grow CaCO3 (limestone) using minerals dissolved in seawater.
Keeping the Lights On: Keep the Hopes High Read more about Keeping the Lights On: Keep the Hopes High Following a 5-month long conflict between armed groups and the Philippines government security forces in Marawi City, USAID advanced a multi-pronged menu of sustainable and targeted solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) across different sectors. The package of quick response development assistance was designed to alleviate the sufferings and improve the plight of roughly 360,000 IDPs.
Improving Coordination for Strategic Energy Investment in SIDS/ FACS - Case Study of Republic of the Marshall Islands Electricity Roadmap Read more about Improving Coordination for Strategic Energy Investment in SIDS/ FACS - Case Study of Republic of the Marshall Islands Electricity Roadmap Over the last decade, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has experienced a proliferation of development partners and projects, with a resulting increase in the transactional burden on national personnel and government departments. Projects have tended to be stand-alone, with limited cooperation between funders.
Nicole Baker Keywords Nicole Baker Consulting climate change renewable energy transport biodiversity Read more about Nicole Baker Nicole Baker has almost two decades experience in strategy, institutional development and program design in climate change, renewable energy, transport and biodiversity, across the Asia-Pacific region. Nicole focuses on bringing people together to create a shared vision for a zero-emissions, sustainable future, to understand choices and trade-offs in the pathways to achieve that vision, and to commit to the necessary actions and investments.