Learn about the concept of green logistics and the importance of making it sustainable.

Green logistics reduce climate change, improve energy security, lower transportation fuel costs, and improve roadway safety, among other benefits.

Ensuring rural road safety is one of the responsibilities of the Social and Environment Office (SEO) of Cambodia’s Ministry of Rural Development. This presentation provides a brief background of SEO. It also explains SEO’s involvement in rural road safety and how it undertakes capacity improvement to achieve sustainability.

What are the tools necessary to develop pathways to facilitate an orderly transition from the old grid to smarter grids and low-carbon systems? How can models be designed to address affordability, sustainability, and system reliability? System resilience to extreme weather conditions is also an emerging and important consideration in addressing reliability. This session looks at various modelling methodologies that address these considerations.

Services sectors contribute significantly to the Asia and Pacific region’s economic growth and have the potential to be one of the main drivers of growth for the future. By adopting and encouraging the development of innovative solutions, businesses in the service sector can make significant contributions to resource efficiency and pollution management. This session examines how green innovations in the service sector are generating environmental and social benefits across Asia and the Pacific.

With the ability to collect vast amounts of data across large areas in a cost-effective manner and track changes over time, drones have a huge potential to promote and advance environmental sustainability. Drones provide knowledge of ground truth by helping confirm data on the ground.

Tata Group is committed to embedding sustainability in its business strategies. The company subscribes to the philosophy of circular economy, applies the Natural Capital Protocol to assess and value the impact of natural capital on its operations, and supports green initiatives.

ADB’s Bernard Woods examines if ADB was really set up to deliver results by looking at its progress toward the interim targets of the institution's Strategy 2020, and its midterm performance review using the Development Effectiveness Review 2016 results.

This video covers the full session of Insight Thursday, ADB’s in-house knowledge sharing series.

Using ADB’s Development Effectiveness Review 2016, this presentation shows how ADB reviews its performance against its own indicators and targets, takes stock of its achievements, and identifies areas to strengthen its approach.