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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.
This working paper recommends structuring electric vehicle policies around three principles: focus, optimization, and incentives.
In the People’s Republic of China, food delivery businesses are finding innovative ways of reducing, reusing, recycling, and replacing plastic packaging.
Pacific island countries need to include climate action in national development plans to lessen the economic costs of climate change.
A pilot project in Viet Nam will test a heat exchange technology that reuses industrial wastewater for heating and cooling production processes.
A project in the Republic of Korea formed small firms into training consortiums to enhance their workers’ skills and improve overall productivity.
A study from India shows low- and middle-income countries must improve economic evaluations of health interventions to reduce chronic disease burden.
The Maldives is adopting advanced low-carbon technologies to reduce emissions and diesel imports with the help of the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism.
A district heating project taps the help of private sector companies to promote higher energy efficiency and lower emissions.
The Asian Development Bank examines prospects to ramp up efforts for greater utilization of demand-side energy efficiency in Asia and the Pacific.