Asia
Asia ( (listen)) is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres (17,212,000 sq mi), about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size …
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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 21 December 2024 English
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 22 August 2024 English
The project will be aligned with the following impact: social welfare system strengthened to build resilience and promote human and social development. The outcome will be: health, resilience, and socioeconomic …
prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to …
Lowy Institute for International Policy · 9 July 2024 English
Everyone is hoping that the productivity fairy sprinkles pixie-dust on our economic problems inflation, slow growth and income inequality. Remember Paul Krugmans maxim:Productivity isnt everything, but in the long run …
integration; Australia's economic relations with East Asia; international financial flows and the global financial … architecture; financial sector development in East Asia Subscribe to stay up to date Subscribe to stay up …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 25 June 2024 English
UNEP West Asia Office, in collaboration with the Global Assessments Unit of UNEP and the Arabian Gulf University (AGU), is hosting a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop, tentatively from 25 to 27 June …
Reporting 25 - 27 June 2024 Manama, Bahrain UNEP West Asia Office, in collaboration with the Global Assessments …
WRI: World Resources Institute · 3 June 2024 English
This paper describes the methods for updating the Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT) in three areas: boundaries, to spatially differentiate planted forests and tree crops from natural and seminatural …
Visit Project Part of Forests Submit Regions Africa Asia Europe Latin America North America Programs Cities …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 27 May 2024 English
international cooperation on air pollution: "Unlocking and Future-Proofing Air Quality Management in Asia" Date: 27-29 May 2024 Location: Conference Room 4, UN Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (and hybrid) …
Unlocking and Future-Proofing Air Quality Management in Asia 27 - 29 May 2024 Bangkok, Thailand Please join us … "Unlocking and Future-Proofing Air Quality Management in Asia" Date: 27-29 May 2024 Location: Conference Room … annually, the bulk of which – 70 percent – occur in the Asia Pacific. In addition to health hazards, air pollution … as the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET), the Malé Declaration, the Association of … Haze Pollution, the Asia- Pacific Clean Air Partnership (APCAP), North-East Asia Clean Air Partnership …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 20 May 2024 English
working group on a science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution prevention. The SPP OEWG Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting in preparation for the third session of the ad hoc open-ended working group …
WORKING GROUP Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting in preparation of the OEWG 3 on a science-policy panel on … chemicals, waste and pollution prevention. The SPP OEWG Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting in preparation for the …
World Bank Group · 1 May 2024 English
This brief showcases the gender landscape in Cyprus on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains, minimizes losses in wealth, …
2022 27.0 30.1 22.8 Note: The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region includes 58 countries (all income levels) … while the regional average across Europe and Central Asia is 86. Overall 94 Mobility 100 Workplace 100 Pay …
Australian Energy Market Operator · 23 April 2024 English
The high-price events in January and February that contributed to the overall rise in the cap return component of the quarterly average are discussed in Section 1.2.2 • In this …
Gas market dynamics increase in spot activity from Asia (mainly China, India and other south-east Asian …
Australian Energy Market Operator · 23 April 2024 English
The high-price events in January and February that contributed to the overall rise in the cap return component of the quarterly average are discussed in Section 1.2.2 • In this …
Gas market dynamics increase in spot activity from Asia (mainly China, India and other south-east Asian …
