Urban development

Highlights: Southeast Asia Development Symposium 2022: Sustainable Solutions for Southeast Asia’s Recovery

This publication recaps proceedings during ADB's Southeast Asia Development Symposium 2022. It highlights the solutions that address challenges from the pandemic.

Tags: ASEAN, Information and communications technology, Sustainable Development Goals, Tourism, Social development and poverty, Health, Climate change and disaster risk management, Environment, Urban development, COVID-19

Indonesia’s Future Capital Aspires to Be Carbon Neutral by 2045

Nusantara’s plan to achieve a carbon-neutral, resource-efficient, and livable city will contribute to Indonesia’s target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2060.

Tags: SEADS 2023, Indonesia, Climate change and disaster risk management, Sustainable Development Goals, Environment, Urban development

Building a Climate Resilient Asia: What Is Most Needed?

Ensuring cities are livable, adopting nature-based solutions, adopting sustainable transport, and shifting to hydrogen power among initiatives seen to bolster fight against climate change.

Tags: SEADS 2023, Climate change and disaster risk management, Energy, Environment, Urban development

Leveraging Benefits of Regional Economic Integration: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Greater Mekong Subregion

This report shows how the Lao PDR can leverage its regional position to boost trade, increase agriculture, and harness the power of its cities to promote inclusive and equitable growth.

Tags: Lao PDR, Trade and industry, Economy, Urban development, Agriculture and food security

Safer Trains: Expanding Communication Platforms to Report Gender-Based Violence in Transport Services in the Philippines

Grievance redress mechanisms are essential for quick response to stakeholder feedback—and to make public transport equitable and safer.

Tags: Transportation, Urban development, Gender and development

Why We Need Whole Life Carbon Data to Scale Net-Zero Buildings

Given that buildings and the wider built environment contribute more than a third of the total greenhouse gas emissions emitted continuously into the Earth’s atmosphere, action is urgently needed to decarbonize the property sector.

Tags: SEADS 2023, Information and communications technology, Climate change and disaster risk management, Environment, Urban development

ADB Launches Program to Scale Up Investments in Air Quality Improvement

The program will stimulate investments in projects that benefit air quality such as greenhouse gas reduction in energy, agriculture, transport, industrial, and urban development, among other sectors.

Tags: Environment, Energy, Agriculture and food security, Transportation, Urban development