Nature-based solutions (NBS) are interventions to protect, restore, and sustainably manage natural or modified ecosystems to support both biodiversity and human well-being.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), prepared this tool compendium to help address the issues, challenges, and barriers faced by developing countries from Asia and the Pacific in the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This report presents the results of a stocktake of national responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15, and selected environment-related targets that have a direct relationship with responsible consumption and production, and sustainable marine and terrestrial ecosystems management, by 15 developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
This publication launches the Inclusive Green Growth Index, a new comprehensive metric that captures the key dimensions of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability.
The poor and vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately from the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters, which result in loss of life, damage to household and community assets, disruption of livelihoods, and loss of income.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has seen governments across developing Asia move significant amounts of capital into relief efforts that have saved countless lives and livelihoods.
The Article 6 of the Paris Agreement lays the foundation for countries to use cooperative approaches in achieving and raising climate ambitions articulated in their respective nationally determined contributions.
This guidance note examines the effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on real economies, particularly financial sectors, and the measures taken to ease the impact.
The Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) is an emerging project-based bilateral offset crediting mechanism initiated by the Government of Japan to facilitate implementation of advanced low-carbon technologies for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in host countries.
Urban populations are projected to increase from 54% to 66% of the global population by 2050, with close to 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa.
The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative is the global effort rallying action towards a transformation in the energy sector by the year 2030.
This publication documents the proceedings of the Second South Asia Judicial Roundtable on Environmental Justice, held on 30-31 August 2013 in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Urbanization in Asia is expected to reach 55% by 2030 and 64% by 2050 to constitute 53% of the world's urban population and contribute half the world's gross domestic product.
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon inance.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has adopted an integrated disaster risk management (IDRM) approach which aims at strengthening disaster resilience in its developing member countries.
From 12 to 14 December 2014, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief justices and their designees convened in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, for their fourth roundtable on environment, with the theme "e;Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Protection.
The Star Mountain Investment Holding Limited (SMIHL) is a Papua New Guinean (PNG) landowner holding company operating in Western Province, in the shadows of the huge Ok Tedi mine.
This report aims to demonstrate the compelling need to increase investments in natural capital in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and identifies actions now being taken regionally and nationally to manage natural capital.
From 15-18 November 2013, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief justices and their designees convened in Bangkok, Thailand for their third roundtable on environment with the theme "e;ASEAN's Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) supported the provincial authorities of Quang Nam in Viet Nam to scale up the implementation of payments for forest environmental services (PFES) through a technical assistance financed by the Governments of Sweden and Norway.
The second edition of the Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment again champions the environment of this unique part of Asia, an area straddled by rivers great and small, with bountiful watersheds, wetlands, and forests.
En el marco del Congreso organizado por la Cátedra Modelo Económico sostenible de Valencia y su entorno, casi una treintena de investigadores de la Facultat d'Economia e Institutos de Investigación de la Universitat de València, han acometido el reto de investigar y traer propuestas persiguiendo el diseño del modelo económico de la ciudad de Valencia y su entorno para los próximos años.
Kritische Fragen nach der Vereinbarkeit von Umweltschutz und Wirtschaft tauchen fast täglich in den Nachrichten- und Kommentarkonferenzen der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung als einer der führenden nationalen Medien auf.
Die Eindämmung der Klimakrise ist die größte Herausforderung unserer Zeit, ökologische Nachhaltigkeit die Voraussetzung für Lebensqualität und Wohlstand künftiger Generationen.
Die Eindämmung der Klimakrise ist die größte Herausforderung unserer Zeit, ökologische Nachhaltigkeit die Voraussetzung für Lebensqualität und Wohlstand künftiger Generationen.
Statt sich dem verändernden Klima anzupassen, haben sich in Deutschland alle gesellschaftlich relevanten Kräfte auf das Aufhalten des Klimawandels eingeschworen.
In einem visionären Werk verbindet Hans Haid die Mythologie der Alpen mit einer schonungslosen Kritik der gegenwärtigen Verhältnisse, in denen die Natur ausgebeutet wird und ein Tal seine Seele an den Tourismus verkauft.
461 konkrete Beispiele und Geschichten aus diversen Branchen zeigen, wie vielfältig und spannend Arbeit ist: Es geht um Leben, positive Entwicklungen, leckeres Essen, Gesundheit, neue Berufsbilder, um menschenfreundlichen Wohlstand, Hochhausbau aus Holz und 3D-Druck aus recycelbaren Materialien, Glück, saubere Umwelt und Menschenrechte, Diversität und Biodiversität, Fachkräftegewinnung und kreativ-umgedrehte Bewerbung.
This standard textbook analyses environmental problems and environmental policy from an economic point of view, providing not only a comprehensible presentation of environmental economics & from its microeconomic foundations to the latest research approaches & but also guidance for current environmental policy discussions.
This standard textbook analyses environmental problems and environmental policy from an economic point of view, providing not only a comprehensible presentation of environmental economics & from its microeconomic foundations to the latest research approaches & but also guidance for current environmental policy discussions.
This book is a comprehensive guide to community engagement and investment, beginning with a survey of community-related voluntary standards and then turning to strategy and management, community engagement, community investment and reporting and communications on community-related activities.
