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Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
A comprehensive assessment of climate impacts helped tailor appropriate and impactful interventions in Huangshan city.
Risk reduction, retention, and transfer are risk management approaches that can be used to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts.
East Asia needs to shift toward a model of economic growth focused on low carbon emissions and more efficient use of resources.
Strengthen laws, improve labeling, create incentives, regulate refrigerants, and promote large-scale adoption.
Countries need to build capacity and develop financial solutions for different climate risks, including those that can better address slow-onset events.
Pacific island countries need to include climate action in national development plans to lessen the economic costs of climate change.
Using resource-saving technology, new rice varieties, and intercropping of vegetables improve yields and income in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal.
International exchange of information curbs the outflow of resources from tax evasion.
Analogous with the gradually increasing global temperature, a gradually increasing carbon tax will over time alter and transform the economics of energy use.