Back to Blue: Let’s Value Our Oceans Again
Blue credits offer an innovative financing approach for attracting private capital to oceans health improvement projects.
Asia’s Eating Habits are Changing and the Environmental Impact Could be Huge
These charts illustrate the environmental impact of agriculture in Asia and the need to move toward sustainable and healthy diets that are also environmentally friendly and affordable.
Asia’s Disaster Data Shows Need for Leaders to Scale Up Resilience at Sendai Meeting
Thousands of participants will converge in Sendai, Japan from 14-18 March for the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to agree on a new global plan to make nations and communities more resilient to natural calamities.
Asian Judiciary: Emerging Leaders in Climate Change Action
Asian judiciaries are setting the global benchmark on legal climate action through their work on cases with environmental implications.
Asia's Coastal Areas Are More Than Just Carbon Credits
The emergence of ‘blue carbon’ in the global carbon markets could help protect Southeast Asia's coastlines, but these habitats should be valued for more than their carbon.
Asia's Air Quality Crisis: How Regional Action Can Address Air Pollution
Air pollution claims more lives annually than tobacco, with children and the elderly at severe risk.
As Asia Recovers, Will Green and Social Finance Have Real Impact?
Evidence shows that green and social finance are associated with positive environmental and social outcomes and can contribute to a more sustainable world.
Are Economic Growth and Biodiversity Compatible?
There is no time left to debate whether saving our planet is too expensive, or to keep promoting socioeconomic models that are clearly not working.
Aid in Practice – Mobilizing Youth When Disaster Strikes
For a lot of youth around the world, disasters and aid are just concepts—something they might view on television or read about online, but never actually experience first-hand.
ADB’s Safeguards Policy Could be a Benchmark
Safeguards to avert damage that development projects can do to the environment and communities are essential in development finance.