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Seoul has achieved prosperity, low carbon emissions, and disaster resilience by investing in green spaces and private sector growth.
The region needs to increase resource efficiency, diversify economies, and enhance cooperation to bolster adaptation and mitigation efforts.
Involving residents from rural communities is key to improve access to markets and commercial areas.
Digital finance promises to be an effective means of reaching the unbanked, but its use must be accompanied by consumer information and education.
Domestic violence is a human rights issue, requiring collective stakeholder interventions to provide a continuum of care for all affected.
Sea level rise will hike coastal flood losses at least 12-fold by 2100. The benefits of adaptation outweigh the costs, providing returns at least 10 times the investments.
A tech startup in Australia is piloting the use of blockchain in ensuring traceability, provenance, and authentication in the supply chain.
Seoul’s innovative solution in blending modernization with cultural preservation successfully transformed the Bukchon hanok area.
In the People’s Republic of China, biogas plants supply electricity to livestock farms using their wastes and produce organic fertilizer for eco-farming.
Successful adaptation to older population age structures requires a policy focus on measuring and improving the social value of medical care.