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Exploring climate impacts, socioeconomic factors, and governance can lead to innovative strategies for the deltas’ protection and empowerment of their communities.
Seoul has achieved prosperity, low carbon emissions, and disaster resilience by investing in green spaces and private sector growth.
Update curricula to offer more green-focused programs, leverage R&D on new technologies, and commercialize green-tech start-ups.
Local governments need a combination of strategic policy reforms and capacity building to effectively perform disaster risk reduction and management functions.
Indonesia’s first returnable and reusable packaging system is plugging the plastic waste and altering consumers’ consumption behavior.
In the Solomon Islands, the approach combined short-term actions with low potential for future regret with long-term options for future climate conditions.
Improve water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management to strengthen resilience to vector-borne diseases.
A smart management system can improve supply and lower cost with its efficient detection and management of water leaks and overflow.
The water-food-energy nexus approach can help Central Asia manage shared water resources and promote regional cooperation.
Enhancing the competitiveness and sustainability of small businesses requires sustained reforms that include digitalization and innovation.