MARES High Level Forum's Opening Plenary

On 7th February 2023, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Centre for Indonesia[SSP1] -Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (CIMT-GT) hosted a High-Level Investor Forum in Kuala Lumpur with the theme of the “New Ocean Energy Economy”.

Over 150 participants discussed marine renewable energy and its use to regenerate ocean ecosystems with a Keynote Speech by Yang Berhormat Tuan Mohd Rafizi Bin Ramli, Minister of Economy, Malaysia, and representatives from Palau, The Philippines, CIMT-TG, and ADB.

Waste-to-Energy Options in Developing Countries: The GIZ Perspective

German development cooperation targets the establishment of integrated, closed-cycle waste management systems. In this presentation, Barbara Oelz shares a brief introduction of GIZ and provides a summary of the forthcoming publication, “Waste to Energy Options for the Management of Municipal Solid Waste. She also gives some insights on the current GIZ publication, “Waste to Energy Rapid Assessment Tool”.

The People’s Republic of China’s Municipal Waste-to-Energy Project: A Model Approach to Financing a State-of-the-Art Technology

In the People’s Republic of China, higher income growth in urban and rural areas resulted in higher demand for energy and generation of more waste. Using the Asian Development Bank (ADB) innovative financing approach, a private company applied the waste-to-energy technology that increases electricity generating capacity without greenhouse gas emissions.

Read about ADB’s other energy projects in Knowledge and Power: Lessons from ADB Energy Projects.