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Seoul’s Owl Service has reduced the use of passenger cars by more than 2 million trips per year.
Raise the efficiency of public procurement and land and labor markets to boost productivity, and address growth constraints on agriculture and tourism.
Secondary cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have an opportunity to avoid gridlocked growth patterns and to integrate sustainable energy and transport solutions.
In Seoul, 90% of landfill-bound wastes were instead used to produce energy enough to heat 518,000 households.
In the run-up to the high-level dialogue on energy in September, stakeholders must join hands to scale up action toward SDG 7.
Singapore pioneered road pricing as a tool to reduce traffic congestion and improved it over the years into a high-tech, pay-as-you-use system.
After years of education reforms, Cambodia focuses on preparing workers for higher-level technical roles in a bid to become more globally competitive.
Each country must follow its path in leveraging fiscal resources for sustainable development.
The Republic of Korea provided vocational training for disabled people in addition to imposing a hiring quota for both public and private employers.
The immunization campaign for children in the Republic of Korea after the Korean War took years of strategic planning and implementation that included health education and legislation.