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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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The Philippines’ Voluntary National Review on the Sustainable Development Goals
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2019-11-30)United Nations member-states, including the Philippines, committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to "conduct regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the national and sub-national levels, ... -
National Geospatial Database for Maldives to Mainstream Climate Change Adaptation in Development Planning
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-11-30)Maldives is a developing state composed of 26 natural atolls with about 1,192 small coral islands spread over roughly 90,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean. The country is divided into 20 administrative regions, each with a local administrative ... -
Valuing the Environment
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-10-30)To determine the amount of environmental goods and services to provide or preserve, it is necessary to weigh society’s degree of preference for the environment vis-à-vis other goods and services. This value measure serves to inform the decision-making ... -
Electric Vehicles and Energy Insecurity in Asean Countries: Renewable Energy Integration and Urban air Quality
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-10-30)The electrification of road transport in the ASEAN appears to decrease the level of final energy consumption in the road transport sector in 2040. The level of primary energy consumption, however, may not decrease unless countries adopt aggressive ... -
Updates from Washington, DC: October 2019
(The Asia Foundation, 2019-10-30)In this issue: The Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019, South Korea, Satellite Broadband Service in the Philippines, Timor-Leste’s Democratic Journey, Green Growth in Pakistan, The Gender Lab Boys Program, Afghanistan-Pakistan Cross-Border Trade, ... -
Climate Change and Global Warming: Singapore and the Arctic
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-10-16)The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has added urgency to the need to address enduring changes in the world’s oceans due to global warming. In this respect, the Arctic is expected to be where the most rapid changes will ... -
Yet Another Haze Crisis: How Now?
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-10-03)Three main factors cause the Southeast Asian transboundary haze; weather, peatland management and people. The acrid smog may have cleared for now but unless the underlying issues are addressed the recurring haze will have grave implications for health ... -
Illusion of Gender Parity in Education: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Bangladesh
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-09-30)One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals—gender parity in all levels of education—is widely considered to have been attained. However, measuring gender parity only through school enrollment is misleading, as girls may lag behind boys in ... -
Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Pollution Abatement
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-09-30)This paper analyzes the impact of tariff liberalization and foreign direct investment on pollution from a plant-level perspective. It considers how globalization impacts plant-level investment in pollution abatement expenditure. Popular hypotheses on ... -
Brookings India Electricity and Carbon Tracker: A few insights
(Brookings India, 2019-09-30)With the integration of large amounts of Renewable Energy (RE) into India’s electricity grid, high future RE targets and the need to meet the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) commitments regarding emissions, time is right for a tool ...