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Lessons from the Republic of Korea’s basic skills guarantee policy show how adaptive testing and guidance can ensure learning continuity amid COVID-19.
The pandemic exposed gaps in food systems that call for integrating healthy diets with sustainable resource management and public health.
Create an enabling environment with strong policies, institutions, and financial systems that support solutions that can adapt to changing needs.
Large-scale and youth-targeted government policies can mitigate the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on youth employment in Asia.
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.
Governments must have a strategy that looks at SMEs at the enterprise level to help them survive in the new normal.
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.