Environment

ADB Strengthens Cooperation with ASEAN on Disaster Risk Management

ADB will provide technical assistance to support a program to strengthen regional cooperation on understanding, reducing, and managing transboundary risks.

Tags: ASEAN, Finance, Climate change and disaster risk management, Environment, Regional cooperation and integration

Financing the Ocean Back to Health in Southeast Asia: Approaches for Mainstreaming Blue Finance

This report from the Asian Development Bank gives an overview of Southeast Asia's blue economy with a particular focus on the investment approaches, opportunities, and finance mechanisms that are available to promote and catalyze funds for a sustainable ocean economy.

Tags: SEADS 2023, Finance, Environment, Economy, Sustainable Development Goals, GFH Publications

Turning Waste into Energy, Reducing Environmental Pollution in Viet Nam

EU-backed SWITCH Asia project helping tea production greener while boosting farmer income.

Tags: Viet Nam, Agriculture and food security, Environment, Energy

Philippines to Pilot Energy Transition Mechanism in Mindanao

The Agus-Pulangi hydropower plants will be rehabilitated and expanded to enable the early retirement of coal-fired power plants.

Tags: Energy, Environment, Philippines

ASEAN Green Future Phase 1 Reports—Further, Faster, Together

This series of reports looks at the decarbonization pathways for ASEAN member countries.

Tags: SEADS 2023, Climate change and disaster risk management, Cambodia, Environment

ADB Welcomes Promising Steps Forward at COP26 for Climate Action in Asia and the Pacific

ADB welcomes the scaled-up commitments from its developing member countries at COP26 as a promising step forward to strengthen actions in the global battle against climate change.

Tags: Economy, Energy, Environment

Housing, Buildings Are Key to Sustainable Development

In this op-ed, Cosima Stahr from SWITCH-Asia Sustainable Consumption and Production Facility and Rebecca Ochong from Habitat for Humanity International examine solutions to help minimize the impact of the building sector on climate change.

Tags: Sustainable Development Goals, Social development and poverty, Climate change and disaster risk management, Environment