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Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A Comparative Systems Analysis of Mining and Processing Wastes for battery‐metal supply chains

Biodiversity Conservation

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Paulikas, Daina

Virtanen, Elina A.

Coastal mineral resources are promoted as a sustainable option to meet increasing metal demands. However, shallow-water mining contradicts international conservation and sustainability goals and its regulative legislation is still being developed.

Lessons from Palau to end Parachute Science in International Conservation Research

Biodiversity Conservation

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Singeo, Ann

Conservation science is having a reckoning with parachute science. In the parachute science models, scientists drop into a foreign country with preconceived notions, seeking to validate their assumptions without genuine engagement with local people, ideas, epistemologies, methodologies, and knowledges, and leave without giving back to the place from which they extracted.

Integrating Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide

Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience

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Matthews, John

In all countries, economic growth comes with the loss of natural capital, our ultimate sources of wealth. Therefore, the challenge is combining growth with preserving our ecosystem to secure more prosperous Asia and the Pacific.

Hybrid and Battery Energy Storage Systems

Climate Change Resilience

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Many Pacific SIDs see a conversion of imported fossil fuel based electricity generation to locally available renewable energy generation as an opportunity to reduce vulnerability, in case sustainability and energy security, and improve electricity access and affordability.

Mainstreaming Water Resilience in Asia and the Pacific: Guidance Note

Climate Change Resilience

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Water resilience is an unsurpassed challenge and opportunity in establishing a properous, inclusive and sustainable Asia and the Pacific. It determined each country's ability to prepare, withstand and thrive in the wake of grave water stresses brought on by disasters triggered by natural hazards and climate change.

Sea-Level Change in the Pacific Islands Region

Climate Change Resilience

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The engagement in the Pacific Islands Region (PIR) of the Pacific Department PARD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) includes supporting developing countries in the PIR through regional development forums and infrastructure finance. Given the vulnerability of the PIR to SLR (sea level rise), how precautionary should investors be when dealing with SLR in the Pacific.

Economic Insights from Input–Output Tables for Asia and the Pacific

Environmental Governance

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Underpinning all statistics and analyses is the Asia Development Bank's Miltiregional Input-Output database which contains national and bilateral flows for 62 national economies.

Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific

Environmental Governance

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The report demonstrated the need for updated approached to aid for trade in the region to support effective participation in such agreement, undertake reforms and promote access to digitalisation in ways that promote inclusive development and deliver the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development.

Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure : Unlocking Oppotunities for Asia and the Pacific

Climate Change Resilience

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Disasters triggered by natural hazards threaten long-term sustainability of development in Asia and the Pacific. Countries across the region face significant disaster and climate risks.

Building Forward Together - Towards an Inclusive and Resilient Asia and the Pacific

Environmental Governance, Biodiversity Conservation

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The pandemic further widened existing inequalities and vulnerabilities. Evidence also shows the reversal of hard-won gains in poverty reduction in several countries in the region. All this is happening alongside intensifying environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and te continued onslaught of natural hazards and climate change.

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