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Understanding Myanmar’s solid waste systems presents a challenge for anyone working in the sector. While waste collection and disposal challenges faced by Myanmar’s cities and towns share similarities, strategies to overcome them evolve locally and are often not well-communicated between different local government bodies. Data on the country’s...

Starting in August 2019, the SWITCH Asia SCP Facility has provided technical support to Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) for development of the National Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production (2021.2030) (NAP on SCP). The SCP Facility established a team of international and national experts to conduct an assessment on...

Learning from cultural traditions and philosophies could help place countries in Asia on more sustainable development paths. This paper argues why and outlines how countries in Asia should collaborate in pooling and promoting good practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and philosophies to mainstream sustainability at the local, national...

Unmanaged plastic waste poses a major socio-economic, environmental and health risk to urban and marine environments in the Asia Pacific. Each year South-east Asian countries produce 11.7 million metric tonnes of plastic waste, of which over 60% is derived from urban areas. Therefore a focus on effective city governance will be vital to tackle the...

Asia is an extremely diverse region, in terms of the political regimes of its constituent countries, and of their level of development and the nature of their civil societies. As such, its countries are producing a wide range of governance approaches to climate change. Covering the diversity of climate change governance in Asia, this book presents...

Enhancing capacity for building resilient cities is a growing concern among policy makers and international communities to minimize the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. The UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) called for urgent need in building resilient...

This submission, which includes a paper maintaining that indigenous knowledge and philosophical richness can help Asia transition to a more sustainable development paths, argues for a greater focus on looking back as countries move toward a post-pandemic future. More concretely, the paper outlines why and how countries in Asia should collaborate in...

With a population of 250 million, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country and second-largest plastic polluter in the world after China. The country produces 3.2 million tonnes of un-managed plastic waste a year, of which about 1.29 million tonnes ends up in the marine environment. In addition, approximately 10 billion plastic carry bags...

第 7 回持続可能な開発に関するアジア太平洋フォーラム（ APFSD7 ）が、国連アジア太平洋経済社会委員会（ UNESCAP ）により、 2020 年 3 月 25 日から 27 日にタイ・バンコクの UN カンファレンスセンターにて開催される予定である。過去の、少なくとも 2017 年以降の APFSD との大きな違いとして、 APFSD7 ではレビュー対象となる持続可能な開発目標（ SDGs ）のゴール群が存在しないことが挙げられる。これは、 2020 年度の SDGs に関する「ハイレベル政治フォーラム（ HLPF ）」が、レビュー対象となる S DGs の ゴールを設定する代わりに、 2019 年 9 月の S DGs サミットで採択された政治宣言である...

Panduan ini dikembangkan berdasarkan kebutuhan operator di lokasi pusat pengomposan skala kecil hingga menengah (Input sampah organik: <1 ton/hari) di kota Bandung di Provinsi Jawa Barat untuk meningkatkan metode pengomposan dan menyediakan panduan yang mudah untuk operasional harian mereka. Oleh karena itu panduan ini dirancang sesederhana mungkin...