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This short document summarises a base - line report conducted under the Closing the Loop Project. It provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of plastic pollution in Danang in order to support the development of a city level action plan to reduce plastic pollution. The first part of the report quantifies plastic pollution in Da Nang, with...

This report analyses and compares the low carbon city policies and practices of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, with the goal of identifying sector-specific and city-specific good practices that may be instructive to researchers and policymakers in the wider NEA region. It examines key national-level carbon mitigation policies and sector...

This discussion paper serves as a background paper to facilitate the discussions at the First High-Level Follow-up Dialogue on Financing for Development in Asia and the Pacific, to be held on 30-31 March, 2016 in Incheon, Korea and aims to address the following question: In what way will the Paris Agreement bring out opportunities and challenges of...