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Arup is a global collective of designers, consultants, and experts dedicated to sustainable development and to using imagination, technology, and rigor to shape a better world.

Singapore is warming at twice the global average rate, warranting urgent action to devise innovative cooling strategies. Photo credit: ADB.
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Singapore’s Built Environment Traps Heat in Surprising Places

When it comes to designing for heat, sustainable solutions, such as incorporating the natural environment into the design, should be paramount.
Post-COP27: Building a More Climate-Resilient Asia
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Post-COP27: Building a More Climate-Resilient Asia

This paper examines scientific findings on climate change and formulates appropriate policies and strategies to adapt to and mitigate the worsening impacts of extreme weather events.
The Global Green Economy: Capturing the Opportunity
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The Global Green Economy: Capturing the Opportunity

This report explores how governments, investors, and communities can understand the opportunities promised by green economic strategy and take action to build sustainable prosperity.
Distributed Renewable Energy: A Pathway for Resilient Recovery in Cities
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Distributed Renewable Energy: A Pathway for Resilient Recovery in Cities

This report focuses on the practical steps cities can take to turn renewable energy systems that generate and distribute power independently into resilient infrastructure that creates benefits.
City leaders are beginning to realize that greening cities is one of the most effective, practical, and realistic ways of reversing climate impacts. Photo credit: iStock/jamesteohart.
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How Cities Can Embrace Nature and Meet Their Net-Zero Goals

Allowing plants to grow on a building's exterior is a low-cost way of providing shade and lowering the need for cooling.
By 2030, Malaysia aims to achieve its target of reducing carbon intensity against GDP by 45% compared with 2005 levels. Photo credit: ADB.
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Exploring Opportunities for Clean Growth in Malaysia

The Clean Growth Handbook Malaysia identifies opportunities to introduce or scale clean growth in four priority sectors—power, transport, buildings, and manufacturing.
Nature-based solutions have immense potential to restore coastlines and benefit the environment, communities, and organizations but there is work to be done to realize their full potential. Photo credit: ADB.
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Protecting Coastlines and Communities with Nature-Based Solutions

Coastal nature-based solutions are interventions designed with nature to restore ecosystems, reverse biodiversity loss, manage water quality, and tackle the effects of climate change on infrastructure and society.
Regenerative design is a process of restoring nature so humans and natural systems can coexist and coevolve in harmony. Photo credit: ADB.
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Rebalancing and Restoring Our Relationship with Nature Entails Adopting Regenerative Design

Regenerative design aims to combine the needs of humans with those of the planet, while ensuring social and economic benefits for all.
Although cities provide fertile ground for investment in nature-based solutions, very little blended finance is currently being directed to urban projects in emerging markets. Photo credit: ADB.
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How Do We Get Emerging Economies to Invest More in Large-Scale Nature-Based Solutions?

Nature-based solutions that protect ecosystems such as forests and oceans are widely accepted as the way forward to address the climate emergency.
Both the challenges and solutions to climate mitigation and adaptation lie within cities. Photo credit: ADB
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Building a Climate Resilient Asia: What Is Most Needed?

Ensuring cities are livable, adopting nature-based solutions, adopting sustainable transport, and shifting to hydrogen power key to climate action.