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Ports and coastal infrastructure face growing risks from sea level rise, stronger storms, and changing coastal dynamics. This webinar explores how nature-based, hybrid, and adaptive approaches can ...
Ports are vital nodes in the maritime supply chain and play an important role in reducing emissions, improving energy efficiency, and supporting the broader energy transition. As regulations, marke...
Southeast Asia welcomed an estimated 144 million international visitors in 2025, a 13.4% increase from the previous year. While ASEAN aims to further boost tourism arrivals, the regional bloc also ...
ASEAN's rapid economic growth has led to significant environmental challenges such as deforestation, pollution, and inadequate waste management. The rising energy demand and carbon emissions have a...
Dry bulk cargo ports are essential to global supply chains, but their operations can generate significant environmental pressures, from dust emissions and contaminated runoff to greenhouse gas emis...
Fisheries and small-scale ports are vital to coastal economies across Southeast Asia. They support millions of livelihoods, strengthen food security, and connect fishing communities to domestic and...
Cruise and tourism ports play a vital role in driving economic growth, regional connectivity, and cultural exchange. As global cruise tourism has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and continues to scal...
Ports are the backbone of global trade, handling around 80% of the world’s goods by volume. In Southeast Asia, where economies are highly trade-dependent, and ports are closely linked to urban and ...
Ports are the heartbeat of global trade, handling about 80% of the world’s goods by volume, and even more in developing economies. Yet, while they drive economic growth, port and shipping activitie...
Women-led eco-enterprises are at the forefront of driving sustainable development and climate resilience across Asia and the Pacific. However, access to finance remains a significant barrier to sca...
Mobilizing private sector capital will be essential to narrowing the multitrillion-dollar financing gap for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific—a gap that public funds alone cannot fill...
Southeast Asia has advanced its decarbonization efforts, but more ambitious action is needed to slow climate change. The region is well-positioned for the global shift to net zero, yet financing ne...
Despite intensive negotiations at the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) in Geneva, governments have yet to agree on a final draft of the Global Plastics...
Ports are vital engines of trade and development, handling nearly 80% of global goods by volume, but they are also hotspots of environmental and social pressures—from greenhouse gas emissions and a...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping labor markets globally, with significant implications for high-skilled cognitive roles, once thought to be safe from technological disruption.
In Southeas...