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WASH investments through piped water, improved drainage, and waste management can help curb water-related disease risks and boost climate resilience for refugees and host communities.
Regenerative agroforestry can promote decarbonization and biodiversity, while improving coffee farmers’ livelihoods in the Lao PDR.
Data integration and analytics, cloud-based staff management, and e-learning can serve as building blocks for modernizing the civil service system.
Shifting to circular approaches can deliver economic gains while helping address food security and promote sustainable production and consumption.
Invest in preparedness and establish a shock-responsive social protection system to weather future shocks and reap dividends from resilience.
The government implemented a communication plan, expanded bike roads, and improved user convenience to increase bicycle usage as a public transport alternative.
Asia needs to mobilize private capital to bankroll its transition to an environmentally sustainable future.
The technology credit rating system was integrated into loan application evaluations of technologically innovative SMEs.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Map subsidies’ impact on climate efforts in Asia and the Pacific and strategize carbon pricing to guide reforms.