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Early and strong action mitigates health impact, while recovery measures focus on the long term.
The Republic of Korea’s Sudokwon Landfill, one of the largest in the world, offers a sustainable model for urban waste management.
Regional financial cooperation has strengthened Asian economies and made them more resilient, but attention toward this important work has waned in recent years.
Strengthen regional initiatives by harnessing advances in technology, promoting cross-border technology transfer, and harmonizing policies and standards.
Instead of recapturing the tourism of the pre-pandemic era, countries should strive to create a new kind of tourism that is more closely aligned to the SDGs.
A wide range of new solutions is able to avoid, reduce, collect, recycle, and clean up plastic waste.
The student assistance program may be expanded to cushion the pandemic’s impact and enable more poor students, regardless of gender, to complete school.
In a world of disruptive changes, Asian countries need to rethink education and skills training to build a resilient and agile workforce.
Proactive integrity checks can improve public trust in law enforcement agencies and advance societal development.
Digital tools may be used to overcome challenges in planning, logistics management, vaccination administration, and immunization monitoring.