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Asia and the Pacific are awash in plastic garbage. Nearly one third of plastic trash escapes waste collection systems. To beat plastic pollution, microentrepreneurs are transforming trash into cash using these real-life examples.
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Managing Stranded Assets and Protecting Food Value Chains from Natural Disasters
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2017-05-30)
Stranded assets are those that have suffered unanticipated or premature write-downs, lost value, or turned into liabilities due to external shocks. Environmental risk factors, such as natural disasters, climate change, and water scarcity, which can ...
Fostering Green Finance for Sustaining Development in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-03-30)
Placing the Asian economies onto a sustainable development pathway requires an unprecedented shift in investment away from greenhouse gas, fossil fuel, and natural resource intensive industries towards more resource efficient technologies and business ...
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Environmental Governance and Environmental Performance
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-03-30)Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of human survival. Asia, the largest continent in world ... -
Addressing Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Philippines
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-03-15)The value of Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) is estimated at $10 billion–$23 billion per year, making wildlife crime the fourth most lucrative illegal business after narcotics, human trafficking, and arms. The Philippines is a consumer, source, and transit ... -
Early Life Exposure to Outdoor Air Pollution: Effect on Child Health in India
(Brookings India, 2019-03-15)This paper examines effect of outdoor air pollution on child health in India by combining satellite PM2.5 data with geo-coded Demographic and Health Survey of India(2016). We use an instrumental variable strategy for identification as local pollution ... -
Coal in India: Adjusting to transition
(Brookings India, 2019-03-15)Coal is the source of half of commercial primary energy in India. However, non-commercial biomass is still an important energy source, making up roughly one-quarter of total primary energy. The power sector uses the majority of India’s coal (Figure 1) ... -
Resource Sharing and Joint Development in the South China Sea: Exploring Avenues of Cooperation
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-03-15)The Philippines and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Cooperation on Oil and Gas Development, demonstrating their willingness to explore joint development as a pathway to collaboration, notwithstanding their territorial disputes. ... -
UFPF: Urban Financing Partnership Facility: 2018 Annual Report
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-03-15)The Urban Financing Partnership Facility (UFPF or the Facility) will soon mark its 10-year anniversary. Established in November 2009, the UFPF continues its goal of raising and utilizing development partner funds to support urban infrastructure projects ... -
New Malaysia: Whither The Human Rights Debates?
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-03-07)With politics volatile, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition’s manifesto on enhancing human rights remains a challenge. While reforming the status quo could be politically detrimental, the PH government has to show political will to push it through. -
SDPI Newsletter Issue 5 Volume 1
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2019-03-05)Issue 5 Volume 1 of the SDPI Newsletter containing publications, electronic media appearances, and events. -
Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of EMS Standards on the Firms’ Attitude towards Product Safety
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2019-02-28)In response to regulatory policies on environmental and consumer safety, firms implement various initiatives to enhance their environmental compliance to enter or stay in the markets where those regulatory policies are present. Using firm-level data ... -
Environment
(The Asia Foundation, 2019-02-28)Asia represents 30% of the world’s land area yet is home to 60% of the world’s population. Even with declining growth rates, Asia still adds approximately 40 million people to the region every year—creating higher demand for an ever-shrinking natural ...