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Marine coastal ecosystems (MCEs) provide a myraid of services on which governments, businesses and society depend. MCESs include coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass, oyster beds and reeds, salt marshes and sandy beaches and dunes.

A plan that translates proposed mitigation measures into practice. Typically developed as a part of environmental assessment.

Key role in respect of environmental safeguards is to ensure that environmental safeguards for the project are implemented effectively during construction.

the 4 main strategies that are applicable to all environmental impacts: - Avoid: change location/design/technology - Minimize: abatement controls - Restore: re-instate ecosystem - Compensate - restoration offsets

The community resilience partnership program (CRPP) is intended to help countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific scale up investments in climate adaptations, especially investments as the community level that explicitly target nexus between climate change, poverty, and gender. In doing so, the CRPP aims to support countries to meet their commitments to the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risks Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals,

Climate change is a major risk to good development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed to playing an important role in helping countries integrate climate action into core development agendas. Timor-Leste's tropical climate is heavily influenced by the West Pacific Monsoon and its mountainous climate. Timor-Leste had undergone significant development in recent decades due to political stability and oil revenues. It is one of the world's most oil-dependant countries, with production beginning in 2004 and predicted to finish in 2021.

It is a dedicated technical assistance platform established by the Water Sector Group (WSG) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support its developing member countiries (DMCs) become waste secure and resilient. It plans to leverage financing, physical and human resources, governance, partnerships, knowledge, and skills at the local level, while aligning with national, regional and global water security and resilience goals.

The 15 Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are exposed to a wide range of worsening climate-related hazards, such as tropical cyclones, floods, droughts storm surges and sea level rise. The region also faces geo physical hazards such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

This inaugural Asia and the Pacific Renewable Energy status report provides a comprehensive overview of renewable energy developments in selected countries of the region.Asia and the Pacific plays a large role in the world, covering a vast territory and contributing a majority of world population and population growth. The region's economic transformation, accompanied by an energy transition is fundamental to the success of global efforts to achieve sustainable development goals and decarbonisation objectives.