Using Blockchain Technology to Fight Counterfeiters A tech startup in Australia is piloting the use of blockchain in ensuring traceability, provenance, and authentication in the supply chain.
How Digital Finance Can Help Achieve Global Sustainability Goals Alibaba’s digital financial services group shares its experience in using digital technology to reach the unbanked and underserved.
How to Promote Investments in Natural Capital in the Greater Mekong Subregion Increasing investments in natural capital requires a proper accounting of its economic value for informed policy and decision-making.
How to Mainstream Natural Capital Accounting The People’s Republic of China’s efforts to integrate natural capital accounting into its national policy development process may encourage mainstreaming of the practice in other parts of the world.
Lessons Learned from Agricultural Eco-Compensation Schemes Well-designed and participatory eco-compensation schemes with proper technical assistance can help small farmers in some of the poorest and most ecologically sensitive areas in the People’s Republic of China.
Fighting Poverty by Protecting the Environment Through Payment for Ecosystem Services Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
Six Lessons to Learn from Asia's World-Class Universities A combination of factors, including having savvy leaders, strategic planning, and key collaborations, has helped four Asian universities rise up the league table.
Optimizing Road Use in a Congested City In the People's Republic of China, Yichang city is building a sustainable urban transport system with a bus rapid transit corridor as its backbone.
How to Build a 167-Kilometer Railway on Rugged Terrain Effective project design and community engagement helped the Peoples' Republic of China overcome the challenges in building the Dali-Lijiang Railway.
What the People's Republic of China Can Teach Us about Participating in Global Value Chains The People’s Republic of China is moving to more technologically sophisticated and more value-creating segments of global value chains.