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A digital application has helped reduce marine plastic leakage by improving municipal solid waste collection.
COP14 resolutions reinforce ADB’s mandate to support DMCs in meeting their obligations through strengthened safeguards.
EPR frameworks, plastic credit schemes, and high-level waste management technologies can support the Global Plastics Treaty implementation.
Tajikistan has overcome the challenges of being a mountainous, landlocked country to make development gains across society.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
Online learning initiatives fill the gap left by school and business closures and show the way forward after COVID-19.
An electricity trading project between Indonesia and Malaysia is lowering power costs, raising revenue and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Sea level rise will hike coastal flood losses at least 12-fold by 2100. The benefits of adaptation outweigh the costs, providing returns at least 10 times the investments.
In the People's Republic of China, a project is saving enough energy to match the equivalent of building a 107-megawatt power plant.
In the Indian city of Mangalore, the local government partnered with private companies to modernize the sewage system and turn wastewater into a valuable asset.