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Ciclovia, Bogota's car-free days, has inspired more than 100 cities to make space for walking and cycling to improve public health and the environment.

Colombia’s capital Bogota has made it safe and easy to travel by bicycle to work or school by creating a 376-kilometer grid of bike paths, called CicloRutas.

Singapore pioneered road pricing as a tool to reduce traffic congestion and improved it over the years into a high-tech, pay-as-you-use system.

Shifting to circular approaches can deliver economic gains while helping address food security and promote sustainable production and consumption.

Bucking the digital trend, the appetite for cash is driven by such factors as opportunity cost, precautionary motives, aging, and demand from abroad.

Optimize energy efficiency, use climate-friendly refrigerants, and leverage advanced digital technologies.

Circular practices, such as extending a product’s useful life or recycling waste into products, can yield environmental as well as economic benefits. 

Banks need to update their business models as competition from fintechs disrupts the supply chain finance market.

Disaster risk insurance can help countries in Asia and the Pacific to minimize losses from natural hazards.

In the People’s Republic of China, biogas plants supply electricity to livestock farms using their wastes and produce organic fertilizer for eco-farming.