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The People's Republic of China is experimenting with incentive-based mechanisms to resolve challenges in managing its trans-provincial watersheds.
Increase production and consumption of renewables to improve energy security and to also lower emissions per capita and carbon intensity.
Clean Development Mechanism projects supported by the Future Carbon Fund are reducing greenhouse gas emissions while delivering social, environmental, and economic co-benefits that contribute to sustainable development.
Investing in energy transition may enable the textile sector to access markets that require lower-carbon supply chains.
Strengthen laws, improve labeling, create incentives, regulate refrigerants, and promote large-scale adoption.
Identify investment opportunities, expedite reforms to improve business environment, support ESG standards, and forge strategic partnerships.
The region needs to increase resource efficiency, diversify economies, and enhance cooperation to bolster adaptation and mitigation efforts.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Explore equity, quasi-equity, and other non-debt assistance and structural reforms to protect small businesses from COVID-19 and other shocks.
Carbon taxes and emission trading systems can help countries mobilize fiscal resources while enabling green economic recovery from COVID-19.