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Create an enabling environment with strong policies, institutions, and financial systems that support solutions that can adapt to changing needs.

Ecosystem-based adaptation solutions can reduce vulnerability and build resilience of urban areas to climate change.

Governments should provide policy and financial support to industries that shift to remote or noncontact transactions to cope with COVID-19.

Increased road crashes linked to motorcycles call for improving policies on their use for public transport and logistics.

Strategies for making electric vehicles a sustainable solution include a phased implementation starting with e-buses in Dushanbe and climate finance.

Idling of motor vehicles during wintertime generates greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants, but engine block heaters can lessen the negative impact on the environment.

Using a new cement compound that applies nanoparticles can extend the service life of structures to 200 years or more. 

Using batteries to store energy can help improve the efficiency and flexibility of power systems that are integrating new and renewable energy sources into the grid.

This working paper recommends structuring electric vehicle policies around three principles: focus, optimization, and incentives.

Population aging threatens fiscal sustainability unless government takes steps to reduce elderly poverty and manage public spending on pensions and healthcare.