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Urban planners in Seoul shifted from paper-based processes to a computerized system to improve information sharing and decision-making.
A web-based platform using satellite data and climate scenarios helps urban planners build resilient and livable cities.
Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
Shifting to circular approaches can deliver economic gains while helping address food security and promote sustainable production and consumption.
In the People’s Republic of China, biogas plants supply electricity to livestock farms using their wastes and produce organic fertilizer for eco-farming.
Implement supportive policies, encourage merchant adoption, and integrate digital payments into public services.
Innovative and sustained support for Grameen-style lending expanded financial services for underserved groups, including women.
A combination of asphalt and concrete layers that incorporate plastic waste could make durable, sustainable, and cost-effective rural roads.
How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.
Contractual arrangements for PPP infrastructure procurement must be improved.