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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.

By 2030, Malaysia aims to achieve its target of reducing carbon intensity against GDP by 45% compared with 2005 levels. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
13 June 2024

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.
Singapore is warming at twice the global average rate, warranting urgent action to devise innovative cooling strategies. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
21 March 2024

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.
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.
Article
1 August 2023

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.
Post-COP27: Building a More Climate-Resilient Asia
Publication
13 July 2023

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.
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.
Article
15 May 2023

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.
Article
27 March 2023

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.
Article
20 February 2023

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.
The Global Green Economy: Capturing the Opportunity
Publication
27 January 2023

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.
Both the challenges and solutions to climate mitigation and adaptation lie within cities. Photo credit: ADB
Article
18 January 2023

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.
Whole life carbon is the primary metric the global property sector and its supply chains need to scale net-zero buildings. Photo courtesy of Arup.
Article
12 December 2022

Why We Need Whole Life Carbon Data to Scale Net-Zero Buildings

With buildings and the wider built environment contributing more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions, the property sector needs to decarbonize.