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Improved integration of disaster risk data, social registries, and delivery systems can strengthen crisis response.
Data-driven evaluation can help students and professionals develop and focus on skills that meet the changing demands of the labor market.
Government can partner with telcos and educators and use multiple channels of existing infrastructure to reach as many children as possible.
Government support, good governance, and resolute leadership helped Nepal Electricity Authority achieve profitability.
Map subsidies’ impact on climate efforts in Asia and the Pacific and strategize carbon pricing to guide reforms.
A “polluters pay” policy helps Seoul reduce household waste going to the landfill by 90% and waste generated by the city by 40%.
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.
Economic incentives push producers and consumers to use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental costs as well as spur innovative practices.
In Thailand, subsidies, housing grants, educational programs and the leveraging of economies of scale are being used to benefit poor urban dwellers.
EPR frameworks, plastic credit schemes, and high-level waste management technologies can support the Global Plastics Treaty implementation.