This handbook serves as a guide to deploying battery energy storage technologies, specifically for distributed energy resources and flexibility resources. Battery energy storage technology is the most promising, rapidly developed technology as it provides higher efficiency and ease of control. With energy transition through decarbonization and decentralization, energy storage plays a significant role to enhance grid efficiency by alleviating volatility from demand and supply. Energy storag...

This publication offers a comprehensive regional-level analysis of Southeast Asia’s fragile recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that damaged some core economic drivers and sank millions into poverty. It gives a rundown of how eight Southeast Asian countries have dealt with the pandemic and are now beginning to recover. It looks at how countries have reshaped their economies to cope with the crisis and considers the impact of job losses as COVID-19 sent development gains into r...

This handy field guide will help you capitalize on existing desirable land features when planning and designing projects under the National Green Building Standard™. Through five comprehensive case studies you'll see how other builders and developers earned the highest green ratings and home buyer approval by preserving on-site natural beauty, limiting the development footprint, and reducing outdoor maintenance. Whether you are building on an urban infill lot, developing a rural site, or r...

This is a science-backed, action-focused manual for high performers and ambitious individuals who want to own their mornings and dominate their days. It blends chronobiology, neuroscience, elite routines, and practical tactics into a no-fluff playbook that transforms the reader’s identity into an early riser.

This publication explains how ADB’s Environment Action Plan 2024–2030 (EAP) guides its strategic approach to tackling the triple planetary threats of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change to better support sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. With over 50% of the region’s economy directly dependent on nature, the publication shows how EAP’s approach revolves around biodiversity and ecosystem management, pollution control and circular economy, and nature-based climate...

The Knowledge and Support Technical Assistance 9017: Unlocking Innovation for Development's aim is to strengthen the capacity of Developing Member Countries of the Asian Development Bank to solve development problems using innovative solutions. At the five-year mark since the technical assistance was started, this report examines the evidence that has emerged so far to better understand in which ways the technical assistance achieved its aims, and what can be learned from the activities an...

Ever feel frustrated but you don't know why? Does the "brass ring" always seem to be just out of reach? Ever feel like you just shot yourself in the foot? Have you ever felt like others are directing your life?Well, here's the reality - no one is coming. No one is coming to give you the life that you want. No one is coming to give you that fulfillment of your hopes, your dreams, your wishes – NO ONE!Now here's the kicker. You have the power to achieve all these things and you...

Infrastructure is essential for development. This report presents a snapshot of the current condition of developing Asia's infrastructure---defined here as transport, power, telecommunications, and water supply and sanitation. It examines how much the region has been investing in infrastructure and what will likely be needed through 2030. Finally, it analyzes the financial and institutional challenges that will shape future infrastructure investment and development.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), prepared this tool compendium to help address the issues, challenges, and barriers faced by developing countries from Asia and the Pacific in the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The tools presented here can help policy makers gain a better understanding of SDG interlinkages, establish horizontal and vertica...

This publication explores how multilateral development banks (MDBs) can help improve infrastructure resilience in light of increasing climate and disaster risks. It highlights opportunities in three areas: (i) risk-informed planning; (ii) financing assistance that enables improvements in infrastructure resilience before, during, and after a disaster; and (iii) knowledge building through regional and global networks. Examples from around the world showcase some of the successes that have be...

The publication introduces the foundations of natural language analyses and showcases studies that have applied NLP techniques to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. It also reviews specific NLP techniques and concepts, supported by two case studies. The first case study analyzes public sentiments on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Philippines while the second case study explores the public debate on climate change in Australia.

Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. To help address this imbalance, this publication provides guidance on how to integrate gender equality in laws and policies on climate change and disaster management in developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. It provides a conceptual framework and good practice guide based on international norms ...