Sustainable Development Goals


A Point of View: Empowering SMEs for Urban Resilience
This publication offers insights that advocate for SMEs as vital catalysts for urban resilience.

Tags: Urban development, Climate change and disaster risk management, Environment, Private sector development, Sustainable Development Goals

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.

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

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.

Tags: ASEAN, Climate change and disaster risk management, Environment, Information and communications technology, Sustainable Development Goals

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.  

Tags: Finance, Information and communications technology, Sustainable Development Goals, Capacity development

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.

Tags: Indonesia, Education, Sustainable Development Goals, COVID-19

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.

Tags: Information and communications technology, Sustainable Development Goals, Environment, Health

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.

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

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.

Tags: ASEAN, Finance, Climate change and disaster risk management, Environment, Sustainable Development Goals, GFH Publications

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. 

Tags: Gender and development, Sustainable Development Goals

How Robots and AI Will Impact Productivity, Trade, and Labor
With robots and AI seen to increase productivity, trade, and the creation of new skills, the forthcoming technological developments in robotics and AI need to be welcomed rather than discouraged.

Tags: Information and communications technology, Sustainable Development Goals, Trade and industry

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