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As of 2023, the number of internet users in Viet Nam has reached 77.93 million, accounting for 79.1% of the total population. Photo credit: ADB.
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12 September 2023

Viet Nam’s Personal Data Protection Decree: Examining Benefits and Key Challenges

The challenge lies in ensuring the decree stops illegal data collection and exchange, which has left more than two-thirds of citizens' personal data unsecured.
The Quest for Less CO2: Lessons from Shell’s Quest CCS Project
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12 September 2023

The Quest for Less CO2: Lessons from Shell’s Quest CCS Project

This webinar explores how Shell deployed carbon capture and storage technologies at its Quest plant in Canada.
22nd International Vaccinology Course
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11 to 15 September 2023

22nd International Vaccinology Course

This training course features world-renowned experts on vaccinology, immunology, and epidemiology, among others.
Conversations for People and Planet
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8 September 2023

Conversations for People and Planet

The forum will feature how gaming technology and gamified learning experiences can foster environmental stewardship.
To help reduce plastic wastes from households, Alner sells daily household essentials, such as shampoos, liquid soaps, and seasonings, in reusable bottles. Photo credit: Courtesy of Alner.
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7 September 2023

This Social Enterprise Wants to Help Indonesia Eliminate Single-Use Plastics

Alner sells essentials, like shampoos, liquid soaps, and seasonings, in reusable bottles to wean households from goods sold in sachets.
Circular Economy in Asia, Africa and Europe: Sharing Knowledge That Makes Value Chains Circular
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7 September 2023

Circular Economy in Asia, Africa and Europe: Sharing Knowledge That Makes Value Chains Circular

This webinar will discuss how knowledge-sharing and dialogue platforms can help promote the circular economy model.
Sustainable agriculture is a way of producing clean, healthy, and nutritious food, while preserving the environment, providing an equitable distribution of economic wealth, and ensuring the health and safety of not just the food produced but also the health and safety of farming communities. Photo credit: ADB.
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6 September 2023

To Make Agriculture Sustainable, ASEAN Wants Farming to Be Environment- and People-Friendly

This entails shifting to greener farming practices, adopting the circular economy model, and protecting the well-being of farming communities.
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31 August to 28 September 2023

Unlocking Capital for Sustainability

This forum from Eco-Business aims to accelerate the growth and adoption of sustainable finance in capital markets, with a particular emphasis on the Asia and the Pacific.
Through Sky Farm Island, players can learn about hydroponics and aquaponics and eco-friendly food production. Photo credit: Courtesy of MeshMinds.
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29 August 2023

Game on: Schooling Digital Ninjas on Sustainable Urban Farming

With 200 million monthly users, gaming platform Roblox is fertile ground for online learning initiatives targeting those born after 2010—the planet's youngest generation.
Lack of digital readiness has made it difficult for NGOs to secure funding and deliver services effectively. Photo credit: iStock/greenleaf123.
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24 August 2023

The Asia–Pacific NGO Digital Transformation Project: Building a Tech-Enabled Future for NGOs

The initiative seeks to bolster NGOs’ digital skills and capabilities in cybersecurity, data analytics, system automations, service delivery innovation, communications, and AI.  
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Event
24 August 2023

Symposium on Digital Economy and Sustainability

This symposium will discuss inclusive digital transformation in advancing sustainable development in the region.
PAS 2080 is the world’s first and currently only specification for decarbonizing buildings and infrastructure systems. Photo credit: ADB.
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23 August 2023

Decarbonization, Step by Step

Encompassing the whole life cycle of assets and every part of the value chain, PAS 2080 has a crucial role to play in decarbonizing the world’s buildings and infrastructure.
Event
23 August 2023

Empowering SMEs for Urban Resilience

This webinar explored the transformative roles of SMEs and the need for closer collaboration between public sectors, especially local governments, and SMEs.
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Event
23 August 2023

Sustainable Energy Financing and Mobilization of Energy Investments to Ensure Energy Security and Achieve NDCs in ASEAN

This forum will look at how ASEAN countries can achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) while meeting the goals set out in the regional energy blueprint.
Drone technology can be used in innovative ways to fight climate change, such as monitor forest fires and other environmental changes, plant trees, produce detailed maps of protected areas, and may even provide a low-carbon method of delivering parcels. Photo credit: iStock/Christian Martin.
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22 August 2023

Southeast Asia Explores Frontier Technologies in Quest for Carbon Neutrality

Disruptive technologies will reshape industry, healthcare, and communications and provide urgently needed solutions to global challenges like climate change.