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What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.

The GrEEEn Cities Initiative brings together policies, strategies, sector plans, regulations, financial incentives, technologies, governance institutions, civil society, and private sector interventions.

Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones. 

Early warning is most effective when governance, data, and protocols align, helping health systems act earlier on climate-sensitive risks.

Regenerative agroforestry can promote decarbonization and biodiversity, while improving coffee farmers’ livelihoods in the Lao PDR.

Strategies include enhancing water resource management, strengthening biodiversity conservation, and promoting sustainable ecotourism.

Despite welcome progress on universal access to electricity, the transition to renewable energy is faltering at a time when multiple shocks are hitting Asia and the Pacific hard.

Scaling up farm activities through sustainable mechanisms that improve conditions and incomes of smallholder farmers can alleviate rural poverty.

Poverty maps derived from satellite images helped target the most vulnerable households in pandemic-affected areas in the Philippines.

Machine learning and satellite imagery can provide data needed by governments for effective property tax management more quickly and efficiently.