Development Asia

A study found that a cohesive framework governing electric vehicles (EVs), combined with and regional collaboration, is needed to accelerate the transition to EVs in .

Learn about the barriers to adoption in the region and the most effective instruments enabling it, such as national EV targets, duty exemptions, and and purchase subsidies.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/summary/powering-road-ahead-decarbonizing-transport-carec

CAREC Program

The city of Ganzhou in the People’s Republic of constructed nearly 1,000 years ago a comprehensive system that combines engineered drainage channels, hydraulic control structures, and natural storage ponds to simultaneously manage stormwater, urban wastewater, and river flooding.

Its principles resonate with contemporary approaches to nature-based solutions and sponge city wherein
1️⃣ drainage channels and deep pipelines minimize the risk of surface flooding during heavy rainfall
2️⃣ outlets located along the wall automatically close or open in response to changing river levels, and
3️⃣ interconnected ponds capture excess runoff and supply for and aquaculture.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/explainer/what-1000-year-old-drainage-system-teaches-us-about-flood-risk

ADB Water and Urban Development

Dry bulk cargo ports are essential to global supply chains, but their can generate dust, greenhouse gas emissions, and contaminated runoff.

This ADB showcases practical approaches to managing dust, runoff, and emissions. It also examines how environmental performance is increasingly linked to operational , competitiveness, and access to .

🟠 WATCH https://events.development.asia/learning-events/dry-bulk-cargo-ports-managing-dust-runoff-and-emissions