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Innovations in water management and adaptive planning can create opportunities for climate adaptation and mitigation.
A better understanding of environmental standards—their differences and implications—can help developing countries better safeguard the environment.
High upfront costs and lack of incentives impede fuel efficiency initiatives in road freight in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Armenia’s leaders put in place prudent fiscal and monetary policies that resulted in strong economic growth.
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.
Enhance legal frameworks, manage funds separately, and clarify liabilities to prevent future crises.
Instead of using diesel generators, remote islands can build a local energy grid that uses hydrogen as a pollution-free alternative.
Lanzhou, in the People’s Republic of China, has the world's first bus rapid transit with a split station design allowing buses in the same direction to stop on both sides of the platform, easing travel time.
The Maldives is adopting advanced low-carbon technologies to reduce emissions and diesel imports with the help of the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism.
Advances in technology are making more jobs obsolete, which means workers need skills to adapt quickly to changes in the workplace.