Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP …). It is the sixth in a series of reports prepared by ESCAP for successive Ministerial Conferences on Environment and … Development in Asia and the Pacific, and is the third in ADB’s Asian Environment Outlook series. It is also in line with the …

quality of the ambient environment, the recently released Macro Strategic Research Report on the PRC’s Environment recognized …

(Rio+20), ADB prepared this report, Environment Operational Directions 2013–2020, to provide a coherent overview of ADB … environment operations and to articulate how it will step up efforts to help the region achieve a transition to environmentally … experience in environment operations, and identifies effective approaches for the development of “greener” country partnership …

, selection, and implementation of “win–win” travel demand management measures that improve both the urban environment and the …

convened in Bangkok, Thailand for their third roundtable on environment with the theme “ASEAN’s Environmental Challenges and … implementation of “A Common Vision on Environment for ASEAN Judiciaries” (the “Jakarta Common Vision”), such as by establishing … National Working Groups on Environment and an ASEAN Judiciaries Working Group on Environment, and prioritizing the attendance …

health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and …

This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries …, but do reap a substantial proportion of the health benefits of reduced smoking. …