Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Implementing 25 Solutions to Help 1 Billion People Breathe Cleaner Air by 2030 (Mongolian)

This presentation gave an overview the top 25 measures that could significantly improve air quality and public health by the year 2030. It further underscored that the implementation of these measures requires more knowledge of what enables success in particular sectors and contexts, governance arrangements that facilitate coordination across different government agencies and non-state actors.

Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the SDGs

This presentation gave an overview of ADB's regional technical assistance 9245 on "Supporting the Implementation of Environment Related SDGs in Asia and the Pacific" ad how the project helps strengthen the capacities of ADB developing member countries to integrate environmental dimensions of the SDGs into their national policies, plans, and programs. It also laid out the workshop's objectives, relevant background materials, and expected workshop outputs.

Eric Zusman

Eric Zusman is a senior policy researcher/area leader at the Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES) in Hayama, Japan. Dr. Zusman holds a bachelors degree in Mandarin Chinese from Rutgers University, a dual Masters Degree in public policy and Asian studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. For much of the past two decades he has conducted research on environmental issues in Asia.

Simon Olsen

Simon is an international sustainable development expert with over 13 years of experience in sustainable development and environmental governance ranging from policy research to project design and management. His recent work has involved supporting governments in the Asia-Pacific region strengthen their response to the environment-related SDGs (sustainable consumption and production; life below water, and life on land), as part of an ADB project.