Article
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.

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.

Article
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.

Publication
17 August 2023

Review and Assessment of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle Economic Corridors: Integrative Report

This report reveals how to boost the subregion's development based on the countries' physical connectivity and cross-border trade, while also mapping a new corridor.

Article
16 August 2023

A Secure and Reliable Rare Earth Mineral Supply Chain to Meet Net-Zero Emissions by 2050

To meet the net-zero emission scenario, demand for critical minerals is estimated to grow sixfold to 42.3 million tonnes in 2050 from 7.1 million tonnes in 2020.

Article
9 August 2023

Digital Twin Adoption: Creating Opportunities for Positive Change

With their proven utility in existing industries, digital twins offer the potential to help organizations and society at large navigate upcoming changes to how we work and live.

Publication
8 August 2023

Leveraging School Principals to Address Learning Loss in Indonesia through Group and Individual Targeting

This working paper explores whether differentiated remedial teaching can improve the foundational numeracy skills of students in Indonesia.

Article
3 August 2023

Breaking the Green Ceiling: Women Entrepreneurship in the ASEAN Green Economy

Addressing the gender disparity in entrepreneurship and the green sector in ASEAN requires targeted policies and initiatives.

Publication
1 August 2023

Accelerating the Net-Zero Transition in Asia and the Pacific: Low-Carbon Hydrogen for Industrial Decarbonization

This publication investigates the status and potential of green and blue hydrogen in some major industrial sectors.

Publication
1 August 2023

A Point of View: Empowering SMEs for Urban Resilience

This publication offers insights that advocate for SMEs as vital catalysts for urban resilience.

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.

Publication
31 July 2023

ADB Southeast Asia Green Finance Hub: Catalyzing Green and Innovative Finance

This brochure summarizes how ADB’s Green Finance Hub is helping countries in Southeast Asia leverage private sector investments to bridge the urgent financing gap for sustainable infrastructure in the region.

Event
31 July 2023

Indonesia–Japan Fast Track Pitch Event 2023

The pitching event supports open innovation through collaboration between startups and large companies from both ASEAN and Japan.

Publication
27 July 2023

Gender and the Total Work of Older Workers in Asia

This paper estimates that older people, especially older women, are doing a great deal of work caring for others.