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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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More Plastic Bags than Fish? East Asia’s New Environmental Threat
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-04-08)
Marine plastic pollution is the new environmental threat facing mankind. This is also afflicting East Asia where six countries are major pollutants. While some in the region have started tackling this new menace, more can be done by all.
Fisheries and Climate Change
(Asian Development Bank, 2010-10-01)
This policy brief explains how that the oceanic, coastal, and freshwater fisheries and aquaculture operations of the Pacific will be equally subjected to the direct and indirect effects of climate change.
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Assessment of Pakistan National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS's) with Selected Asian Countries and WHO
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2019-07-30)The objective of this study is to assess the current status of Pakistan Ambient Air Quality Standards (AAQSs) i.e., whether our standards are stringent or relaxed in comparison to other selected Asian countries and/or if these are consistent with WHO ... -
Evaluating Foreign Policy of Pakistan in the context of Strategic Coercion
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2019-07-30)Diplomacy and war go side by side in deciding relations between countries. In normal diplomacy, countries enjoy bilateral agreements, concessions and mutual trust for the benefit of their peoples, but in a diplomacy characterized by coercion and tough ... -
Environmental Regulation: Lessons for Developing Economies in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-07-30)Developing countries in Asia face a variety of environmental challenges. Although environmental economics grew mostly out of the experience of developed countries, decades of environmental economics research offer important and useful lessons for ... -
Bhutan Vehicle Emission Reduction Road Map and Strategy, 2017–2025
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-07-15)Bhutan takes pride in being the only carbon-neutral country in the world. However, accelerated economic activities in the last decade have led to a number of environmental issues. Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other air pollutants have ... -
Updates from Washington, DC: Summer 2019
(The Asia Foundation, 2019-07-15)In this issue: Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda; Access to Justice in Laos; Read Aloud Challenge; Timor-Leste; Prospects for US-India Burden Sharing; and Thailand’s Inequality. -
Climate, Urbanization, and Conflict: The Effects of Weather Shocks and Floods on Urban Social Disorder
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-07-15)In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this ... -
Combating Marine Debris: What After the Bangkok Declaration?
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-07-08)The Bangkok Declaration on Combating Marine Debris reaffirms ASEAN’s commitment to protect the marine environment and strengthen regional cooperation in addressing marine debris issues. The declaration must now be complemented with sustainable national ... -
Do Banks Price Environmental Risk? Evidence from a Quasi Natural Experiment in the People's Republic of China
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-07-05)This paper maps the risk arising from the transition to a low-emission economy and studies its transmission channels within the financial system. The environmental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (E-DSGE) model shows that tightening environmental ... -
Integrating Gender into Educational Planning and Budgeting
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2019-07-05)This study provides a gender analysis of public sector budgets in education sector of Pakistan. An in-depth analysis of pre-primary to secondary level education budgetary allocations and spending at federal and provincial (Punjab and Sindh) levels for ... -
Global Waste Trade Chaos: Rising Environmentalism or Cost-Benefit Analysis?
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-07-03)International garbage disputes are rare. Lately, however, the world witnesses waves of newsworthy trash saga. From the Philippines shipping containers of rubbish back to Canada, to Malaysia planning to return tons of garbage back to countries of origin, ...