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A wide range of new solutions is able to avoid, reduce, collect, recycle, and clean up plastic waste.
Indigenous peoples can better articulate their role in making sense of a project’s environmental and social impacts through participatory storytelling.
Promote remote processing of cargo clearances and modernize border facilities to improve intraregional trade in BIMSTEC.
In the Philippines, targeted cash grants to help poor students finish high school could double their potential income and lift them out of chronic poverty.
IAEA is partnering with a number of countries in Asia and the Pacific to transform plastic waste into valuable materials through the use of radiation technology.
Protecting ecosystems is real development, and it has an amazing return on investment.
Experience from other countries shows online business registries are transparent and easy to use, encouraging enterprises to formalize their business.
Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
Government support, good governance, and resolute leadership helped Nepal Electricity Authority achieve profitability.
Two of five adults in the Asia and Pacific region are overweight or obese and the costs associated with these conditions undermine economic growth as well as the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly on health.