Tuul Badarch

Tuul has worked in various sectors of ADB’s operation in Mongolia, including transport, energy and social protection. Currently, she is responsible for the urban development sector and manages several ADB-financed projects aimed to improve utility services and management in provincial towns. Prior to joining ADB Mongolia Resident Mission in 2005, she was a project manager for a World Bank-funded urban project and a researcher in the Democratic Party of Mongolia.

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.

Sustainable Biofuel Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges after the Pandemic

Based on Covid-19 first analysis of impacts on the transport fuel sector, this presentation urged policymakers to act at two different timescales: 1) to provide support to meet short- and medium-term goals, such as assist fuel companies to overcome the collapse of demand and the economic shock, preserving direct and indirect jobs and business; and 2) provide support to meet medium- and long-term goals, such as to increase the ambition and promote higher amounts of domestic renewable and low carbon fuels, injecting economic resources on green domestic supply and conversion chains.

Arpan Paul

Arpan Paul is an assistant professor at the School of Human Settlements at XIM University. He was previously an assistant professor at Sushant University and a research scholar at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Ralf Schüle

Dr. Ralf Schüle is the Co-Head of Research Unit Urban Transitions of the Wuppertal Institute. He studied sociology, political sciences and economics and holds a PhD in sociology. He is a leading expert in low carbon urban transformation and strategic planning of urban sustainability paths along the whole policy cycle and covering most relevant sectors (e.g. energy supply, buildings, transport) at national and local levels. He has 12 years of experience working in this field in Germany, across Europe, and China.

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