Opening green windows
This report focuses on what can be achieved in developing countries by technological innovation, by ‘switching green.
In developing countries a conjuncture of crises through the pandemic and the war in Ukraine which threatens hard-won development gains. they face difficult choices. To eliminate poverty, they need diversified and more productive economies to create more and better jobs and boost household incomes. But faster economic growth will demand far more energy which, if sourced from fossil fuels, would send millions of tons of carbon billowing into the atmosphere.
Developing countries need not, however, follow the historical pathways of carbon-fuelled growth – if the global community is committed to equitable social, economic and technological transformations guided by the Sustainable Development Goals.
The 2023 edition of the Technology and Information Report focuses specifically on what can be achieved by technological innovation, by ‘switching green’.
Asia-Pacific Digital Transformation Report
Making Our Future
Times of crisis, times of change
Review of maritime transport 2022
Shaping our digital future
Reclaiming our future
Review of Maritime Transport 2021
From policy to results
Resilience in a riskier world
Beyond the pandemic
Catching technological waves
Two decades of national employment policies
Growing up in a connected world
Ready for the dry years
The Future is Now: Science for Achieving Sustainable Development
The Disaster Riskscape Across Asia-Pacific
Responding to children’s work
Ending violence in childhood
Global employment trends for youth
Banking on the future of Asia and the Pacific
Human Development Report 2015
Asia-Pacific Aspirations
ASEAN Community 2015
Regional connectivity for shared prosperity
Making it happen
Disasters without borders
