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- A 3-day workshop co-hosted by ADBI, OPRI, and SIIF will focus on implementing blue finance policies to support a healthy ocean economy through collaboration among experts from the private sector, government, and other organizations.
- Explore resilient post-disaster recovery in Asia-Pacific with actionable insights for global policymakers, practitioners, and academics. The book launch event will elaborate further on the people-centric approaches, community participation, financial support, and technology's vital role in post disaster recovery.
- Viet Nam’s plastic pollution is a problem that threatens its public and environmental health, resulting in financial losses across many development sectors. It is estimated that over seven million Vietnamese are negatively affected by the impacts of plastic pollution.
- Navigating the intricacies of plastic pollution in the East Asian Seas region demands a harmonized approach to data collection and management.
- The video promotes the publication A Road Map for Scaling Up Private Sector Financing for the Blue Economy in Thailand: Investment Report which provides ways to mobilize private sector investment in a sustainable Thai blue economy.
- By improving rural infrastructure and supporting farmers, the TSSD-AF is reducing rural poverty and increasing agricultural productivity while helping Cambodia adapt to climate change impacts.
- Access to piped water increases the probability that rural households in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic will adopt modern sanitation and washing facilities.
- ADB is promoting a just transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient future in line with the Paris Agreement.
- ADB has raised 12.5 billion Indian rupees (about $150 million) through its largest local currency green bond issue to date.
- The webinar will discuss carbon pricing, carbon markets, and country strategies and global trends on carbon-related policies.
- ADB recognizes that investments in ocean health and blue economies are critical to strengthen resilience, improve food security, protect cultural heritage, and catalyze economic transformation in Asia and the Pacific.
- 这段视频总结了中国河南省黄河流域平衡保护与发展的挑战，展示了亚洲开发银行支持的创新保护举措。
- This video summarizes the challenges of balancing conservation and development in the Yellow River Basin in Henan Province, People's Republic of China, showcasing innovative conservation initiatives supported by the Asian Development Bank.
- The ADB's #SheExport Accelerator program, funded by We-Fi, has significantly aided Vinasamex, a WSME in Viet Nam, enhancing environmental sustainability and improving the standard of living for local farmers, especially those of ethnic minorities.
- The TSSD-AF project addresses issues of low productivity, the pervasive use of low-quality rice seed, weak value chains, and the rice sector’s vulnerability to climate change in 270 communes in the Tonle Sap basin of Cambodia.
- Highlighting how plastic impacts climate change, this brief considers the anticipated Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) and shows how ADB can help Asia and the Pacific implement circular economy solutions to help meet low-carbon goals.
- In the past decades, urbanization has been one of the critical drivers of economic development and has lifted millions of populations out of poverty in the People’s Republic China (PRC).
- Blue economy is the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihood, and job creation while preserving the health of marine and coastal ecosystems.
- There are viable solutions for the harmful practice of agricultural burning but they need government and private sector support to scale up.
- Desertification continues to expand at the global scale because of climate change. This is leading to extreme biodiversity loss, food insecurity, decreased forest cover, and an increased vulnerability to zoonotic diseases.