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Work has just started in defining and addressing the loss and damage from climate change that cannot be prevented by mitigation and adaptation efforts.
The Clean Air Scorecard Tool helped the most polluted cities to identify gaps in air quality management and introduce measures to rectify them.
Public-private partnerships can help make clean technologies for turning waste into energy accessible to cities.
Lessons learned from the establishment of a Water Resources Management Information System in the Philippines.
The use of unique identification in health systems is improving the quality of health care, cutting costs, and decreasing fraud.
Studying the prominent implications of banning legal wildlife trade can help design effective policies for mitigating the spread of zoonotic disease.
In Maldives, community participation played a key role in the recovery of affected communities after the 2004 tsunami.
Experts endorse 10 principles for risk mitigation, which include evacuation plans for medical and quarantine facilities and areas under lockdown.
Replacing dispersed coal burning with centralized district heating can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.
Disaster risk insurance can help countries in Asia and the Pacific to minimize losses from natural hazards.