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Computer-assisted surveys make data collection possible despite COVID-19 travel and social restrictions.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
A national program promotes forest conservation and protection while creating sustainable livelihoods for communities.
Building roads for socioeconomic development depends on an efficient O&M system that considers the difficult topology and fiscal issues.
Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
Cities can use AI and satellite imagery for rapid data collection to prevent illegal structures and ensure sustainable urban planning.
Governments must rethink and refine tax policy and administration measures to not only address development challenges but also to build back better.
Well-designed and participatory eco-compensation schemes with proper technical assistance can help small farmers in some of the poorest and most ecologically sensitive areas in the People’s Republic of China.
In Indonesia, the rural poor gave cash and in-kind contributions to improve and maintain water supply and services.
Proper design of policy incentives and the right mix of recycling, incineration, and other waste management methods through integrated planning can help protect public health and the environment in a sustainable way.