Green enterprises help fight poverty by creating jobs and adopting sustainable practices.
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This entails shifting to greener farming practices, adopting the circular economy model, and protecting the well-being of farming communities.
Disruptive technologies will reshape industry, healthcare, and communications and provide urgently needed solutions to global challenges like climate change.
Addressing the gender disparity in entrepreneurship and the green sector in ASEAN requires targeted policies and initiatives.
A grant-supported study is looking into the market potential of tradeable certificates and how countries can set up a regional system.
This would entail significant policy change, grant of incentives, and reskilling or upskilling of the region's workforce.
To unlock these opportunities, however, the region needs joint action from multiple stakeholders to provide regulations, standards, manufacturing sector reforms, and other initiatives.
The use of guarantees in blended finance transactions could help close the infrastructure financing gap in Asia.
Tourism officials from Southeast Asia learn about smart tourism technologies in the Republic of Korea.
Adopting sustainable consumption and production practices will have multiple economic and social benefits, such as creating green jobs and reducing pollution.
Making the labor force more diverse, inclusive, and capable of taking on green jobs is crucial for Southeast Asian nations to reach their net-zero goals by 2050.
Meeting Southeast Asia's net-zero targets is hinged on how fast both the public and public sectors can mobilize capital to finance climate investments, but it also entails adopting innovative solutions, incentives, and policies to speed the adoption of cleaner energy.
