Environment program: greening growth in Asia and the Pacific
This publication presents a snapshot of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) environmental strategies, programmes, initiatives, partnerships, and a range of activities that demonstrate ADB's commitment to support environmentally sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific. Several programmes include disaster risk reduction as one of the key areas.
The report highlights innovations designed in selected ADB-supported projects with environmental sustainability as a theme that were approved in 2008–2010. It also discusses the emerging environmental challenges in the region, and previews ADB's strategies to strengthen its operational emphasis on the environment, including climate change, that would help realize green growth in Asia and the Pacific.