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A digital application has helped reduce marine plastic leakage by improving municipal solid waste collection.
A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.
Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
Youth involvement can be improved in the areas of green jobs and green skills, climate advocacy, and Just Transition.
Experience from two projects shows digital tools for database management help ensure a fair and transparent process and efficient resource allocation.
Among the remedial measures are boosting revenue generation, striving for expenditure efficiency, and unburdening liabilities.
The National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2035 emphasizes nature-based solutions, a region-specific approach, and climate-resilient investments.
UAVs enable high-resolution data collection, but their effective integration demands overcoming operational, regulatory, and capacity-related hurdles.
A prototype online platform was created based on a new method for analyzing the quality of secondary education.
Pseudo-panel methods using repeated cross-sectional surveys, which are less costly and easier to do, may offer a solution to this problem.