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Asia-Pacific tech monitor. Vol. 25, No. 4, Jul - Aug 2008
No full textMercury in e-waste : Environmentally unsound disposal / Shunichi Honda and Jinhui Li
Basel Convention : Environmentally sound management of e-wastes in Asia-Pacific / Compiled by Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology
Mobile phone waste : Current initiatives in Asia and the Pacific / Satyabrata Sahu and Nanjundappa Srinivasan
Laws for the recovery of waste products : The urgent need for a strong and efficient legal and policy framework / Lin Ling
E-waste management : Environmentally sound strategies and practices / Aboejoewono Aboeprajitno, Dadan Wardhana H. S. and Cynthia Indriani
Electrical and electronic waste in ChinaGeneration and management : Li Li, Liu Yuqiang, Zhu Xuemei and Wang Q
Asia-Pacific tech monitor. Vol. 20, No. 6, Nov - Dec 2003
No full textTranfer of emerging energy technologies : Technology agreements in the context of climate change / Ogunlade R. Davidson and Frank Teng-Zeng
The promise of renewable : The only true solution to the future of humanity / Hermann Scheer
Introducing new energy into Japan : Government support policies and the role of NEDO / Toru Usami and Yoshihiro Ito
Multi-function platforms : Enhancing economic productivity of rural communities / Jerome M. Weingart
Advanced evacuated tube solar collectors: Products and applications / Zinian H
Resilience in a riskier world : managing systemic risks from biological and other natural hazards
No full textSince the incursion of COVID-19 pandemic, the region has been hit by multiple natural and biological disasters, while climate change has continued to warm the world, exacerbating the impacts. This has reshaped and expanded the Asia-Pacific riskscape.
The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021 addresses the complexity of these converging and cascading risks by analysing natural and biological hazards simultaneously. It presents the impacts of these risks on populations and infrastructure under current, moderate and worst-case climate change scenarios. The Report estimates that annual economic losses arising from such cascading risks could almost double under the worst-case climate change scenario.
The Report emphasises that in an increasingly risky world all these hazards need to be considered not just as individual threats, but also in relation to the larger systems that they are likely to disrupt. Hence, with the help of advanced technologies, policymakers must consider more complex and varied future scenarios.
Finally, the Report makes the case for more purposeful and systemic national action plans. It also highlights areas where subregional cooperation can be strengthened and serve as building blocks of a regional strategy for disaster, climate and health resilience
How to design inclusive social protection systems
Get PDFThis is the second in a series of four policy guides developed to support policymakers and practitioners in Asia and the Pacific in their efforts to strengthen social protection. This policy guide explains how to design inclusive and robust social protection systems and focuses on tax-financed income security, mainly through cash transfers
SDG 7 localisation snapshot : Cauayan, Philippines
Get PDFSDG7 Localisation Snapshot provides a brief overview of the key areas related to implementation of the Sustainable Goal 7 (SDG7) to ‘Ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all’ at the local level based on the answers provided by the jurisdiction to the SDG7 Localisation questionnaire.
Questionnaire allowed to collect the assessments from the local officials regarding the situation on the implementation of SDG7 in their jurisdiction. SDG7 Localisation Snapshot
is a part of the collaborative project of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to
support city and sub-national governments in accelerating their efforts in the field of sustainable energy. SDG 7 Localisation Snapshots are short publications of the cities’ self-assessment regarding their capacity and availability of policies, actions and resources for supporting SDG 7 localisation. The Snapshots can download here
SDG 7 localisation snapshot : Santa Rosa City Philippines
Get PDFSDG7 Localisation Snapshot provides a brief overview of the key areas related to implementation of the Sustainable Goal 7 (SDG7) to ‘Ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all’ at the local level based on the answers provided by the jurisdiction to the SDG7 Localisation questionnaire.
Questionnaire allowed to collect the assessments from the local officials regarding the situation on the implementation of SDG7 in their jurisdiction. SDG7 Localisation Snapshot
is a part of the collaborative project of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to
support city and sub-national governments in accelerating their efforts in the field of sustainable energy. SDG 7 Localisation Snapshots are short publications of the cities’ self-assessment regarding their capacity and availability of policies, actions and resources for supporting SDG 7 localisation. The Snapshots can download here
CropWatch Pro user manual
Get PDFThis knowledge product will enhance the capacity of target stakeholders to use geospatial data applications to monitor agricultural crops, and will contribute to strengthening food security and livelihoods of vulnerable rice growing countries at the national and provincial levels.
The user's manual of the CropWatch Pro, under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) funded project, is translated from English to the relevant local languages for lower Mekong river countries, including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, to allow more government officials have access to a wider range of space-based data and geospatial information products including a cloud-based crop monitoring system service to effectively monitor rice crops.</p