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Event
30 March 2023

Health Sector Net-Zero Solutions—An Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight

The session explored shifting to renewables and net-zero healthcare, embracing circularity, greening the supply chain, and producing low-carbon meds.
Event
30 March 2023

Enabling Energy Transition in Southeast Asia: Mechanisms and Initiatives

Technologies are already available that could support the shift to clean and renewable energy.
Video
30 March 2023

ASEAN and Global Value Chains: Locking in Resilience and Sustainability | SEADS 2023

Climate impacts among challenges threatening ASEAN's position in global value chains
Video
30 March 2023

Jobs of the Future: Building Diversity into the Net-Zero Transition | ADB SEADS 2023

To ensure that no one is left behind, governments and employers must be mindful of existing inequalities, expand the green labor pool, and equip workers to fully contribute to the change.
Video
30 March 2023

Plenary Panel: Financing Net Zero | ADB SEADS 2023

At present the ratio of investments going into fossil fuel and the renewable energy sectors is on par.
Video
30 March 2023

Southeast Asian Countries to Scale Up Renewable Energy Manufacturing | ADB SEADS 2023

Unlocking the region’s potential for the three opportunities would depend on whether the right enablers are in place, including regulatory policies, business ecosystems, technologies, and funding.
Video
30 March 2023

Ecotourism 2.0: Navigating the Transition to Net Zero | SEADS 2023

There is increasing demand for sustainable, low-carbon options among travelers.
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.
Public awareness of climate change is low within Indonesia, but public education could help turn the tide of understanding, especially around the benefits of transitioning to clean energy. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
21 March 2023

3 Steps to Mobilize Waqf to Fund Indonesia's Net-Zero Ambitions

Indonesia should build human capital, establish coordination between government and non-government actors, and create a blueprint for climate waqf.
Electric tricycles and motorcycles comprise the majority of EVs currently on the road in the Philippines. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
16 March 2023

Jumpstarting the EV Market in the Philippines

Zero tariff on electric vehicles and other incentives are expected to encourage more Filipinos to opt for cleaner, greener vehicles.
Tourism’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions was estimated to be approximately 8%. Photo credit: ADB.
Article
14 March 2023

Climate Adaptation and Tourism: A Closer Link Than We Might Think?

Tourism is well-positioned to support climate adaptation as it is an industry with many sectors, with many opportunities to engage and involve.
The metaverse can provide students a unique opportunity to explore and learn through new extended reality technologies and 3D experiences. Illustrations courtesy of MeshMinds.
Article
9 March 2023

Metaverse in the Classroom: Reimagining Learning in Southeast Asia

The potential of the metaverse to help both students and educators has yet to be explored, but ensuring teachers have the skills and the means to use this frontier technology in the classroom is now a must.
Hydrogen technology in Indonesia remains in the pilot research project stage. Photo credit: iStock/UniqueMotionGraphics.
Article
8 March 2023

Can Green Hydrogen Help Indonesia Meet Its Net-Zero Goals?

Hydrogen power could play an important role as an alternative to fossil fuels and can be employed across industries, power generation, and transport.
According to estimates, global warming of 1.5°C could expose 14% of the world population to severe heatwaves at least once every 5 years, and this figure rises to 37% under a 2°C warming scenario. Photo credit: iStock/PraewBlackWhile.
Article
7 March 2023

How to Cool Southeast Asia’s Cities

Low-cost and science-based approach that leverages on natural ecosystems equips the region with the means to fight extreme heat due to climate change.
Harnessing the Lao PDR's untapped wind resources can provide energy diversification as the seasonality of the wind resource is countercyclical to the rainy season, which supports the country’s hydropower generation. Photo credit: ADB.
News
6 March 2023

ADB Signs Loan for First Cross-Border Wind Power Project in Asia, First Plant in Lao PDR and Largest in Southeast Asia

The financing package is the largest syndicated renewable project financing transaction among ASEAN countries to date.