The Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific, or IF-CAP, is a multi-donor financing partnership facility with the goal of scaling-up finance for accelerated action against climate change in Asia and the Pacific.

ADB recently launched the Georgia Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Monitor. Helen Steward, Principal Markets Development Advisory Specialist in ADB’s Office of Markets Development and Public–Private Partnerships, explains what the PPP Monitor is all about.

ADB’s report on sovereign default and loss rates demonstrates the low credit risk in ADB's sovereign operations, with an average default rate of 0.54% over the last 34 years and zero new defaults from 2010 to 2021.

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Category: Health News
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The surprise firings at Alberta Investment Management raises many questions. We will try to answer them

Brightmark CEO Bob Powell discusses Plastics Renewal technology and how to bring sustainability into the medical industry.

Mar 13, 2023

In honor of International Women's Day and U.S. Women's History Month, Erika Manouselis, Manager of the Future of Diplomacy Project, spoke with Desirée Cormier Smith, the U.S. State Department’s first ever Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice.

Global (INTERNET) sensation Joseph Griffin will make his triumphant return to Las Vegas on Thursday, Nov. 19, to properly capture the sights and sounds of the iconic Las Vegas Strip. This time, he�ll film a few familiar sites from his original �selfie� video paired with a selection of only-in-Vegas surprises for this Irish Dad.

Good morning everyone. I'm so pleased to direct you to BookPage, which has my cover revealed today for Winterkeep! Also for the new covers of Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue. Not to mention a Q&A about Winterkeep, and an excerpt. Thank you, BookPage, for helping me share all this. Enjoy, everyone!

Click through for the Winterkeep cover reveal.

Your housing finance queries answered by R.P. Deshpande, senior mortgage banking professional

WIRED's Nick Thompson and Adam Rogers discuss the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic, from testing to vaccines to the ways our world is changing.

Elijah Allan-Blitz, VR Director, "The Messy Truth" in conversation with Angela Watercutter, WIRED.

Deonie Allen and Steve Allen, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, and Isla Meyers-Smith, global change ecologist, University of Edinburgh, in conversation with Matt Simon, WIRED.

Marc Rogers, Executive Director of Cybersecurity, Okta, Nate Warfield, Security Researcher, Microsoft and Ohad Zaidenberg, Founder and Executive, CTI League in conversation with Andy Greenberg, WIRED.

Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Google Project Zero in conversation with Lily Hay Newman, WIRED.

Matt Mitchell Ford Foundation Tech Fellow and Founder, CryptoHarlem and Avi Schiffmann, Founder, The Coronavirus Tracker in conversation with Tom Simonite, WIRED.

Daniel Duane, WIRED contributor in conversation with Maria Streshinsky, Executive Editor, WIRED.

Celia Hodent, game UX strategist, in conversation with Melanie Cornwell

Grammy-nominated artist Tierra Whack makes music and visuals for the internet era—her debut album Whack World garnered attention for its brevity and virality. With an upcoming sophomore album and feature film on her rise, there’s much to anticipate from Whack. Join us in a conversation about her next era in music and how she’ll continue to disrupt the music industry.

Dave's designing a new tshirt, questions for lawyers about copyrights for code projects, what does the copyright in the footer actually do, what do Dave and Chris require for personal web projects, does Jekyll get updated anymore, the Bob from Hell UX pattern, viewing ads on CNN, what about Joomla or Statamic, and how do paid fonts on the web work?

INTERIM Chairman, Douglas Park, discussed a wide range of issues with the Sunday Newspapers. Please find the complete Q&A below: 1: Douglas, it's been a tumultuous few weeks in Scottish football. After everything that's happened - sitting here now - what are your overriding thoughts and emotions? I have to say I am currently feeling a range of emotions. Pride. Sadness. Frustration. Pride because I am experiencing something very rare and special and that's being the Chairman of Rangers Football Club. Sadness because I'm just a football fan, I've been around Scottish football as a fan, sponsor, shareholder and investor for over 50 years and it's really disappointing to see what's being allowed...

Each week, I receive tons of questions from my listeners about tech concerns, new products, and all things digital. Sometimes, choosing the most interesting questions to highlight is the best part of my job. Do you have a question you’d like to ask me?

More than half a million 15-year-olds took part in the OECD’s latest global education survey, known as PISA. The main focus was on science, an increasingly important part of our economic and social lives.

Register for a webinar "PISA 2015: Q&A Session Closing the Achievement Gap" with Andreas Schleicher (December 15th, 14h Paris time)

This public session will discuss the financial incentives to invest in education, with a particular focus on how tax systems impact skills development in OECD countries. The webinar will present some of the key findings from the OECD’s new report, Taxation and Skills and their implications for policy makers.

with Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills

PISA 2015 Results (Volume IV): Students’ Financial Literacy, explores students’ experience with and knowledge about money and provides an overall picture of 15-year-olds’ ability to apply their accumulated knowledge and skills to real-life situations involving financial issues and decisions.

Suzan Murray, chief veterinary medical officer at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, recently returned from Hanoi, where she led a team of scientists training pathologists from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to better sample, recognize and detect wildlife diseases in hopes of preventing emerging pandemic disease.

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A rising spike in West Nile virus is taking health officials across the country by surprise as this year more than 2,600 people in 45 states and the District of Columbia, have been stricken with severe symptoms of this mosquito-transmitted disease.

The post As robins disperse, West Nile mosquitoes switch diet to humans: Q&A with Smithsonian ornithologist Peter Marra appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

The remora's sucker disc is "one of the most remarkable and most highly modified skeletal structures among vertebrates."

The post New study proves the remora’s sucker disc is in fact a highly modified dorsal fin / Q&A with taxonomist David Johnson appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Marc Fries, a research associate in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, answers some basic questions about meteorites.

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All bear species except for one live in either temperate or tropical woodlands. Only the polar bear is a stranger to the forest, living and […]

The post Polar bears in a warming world: Q&A with Don Moore of the National Zoo appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

A fiery explosion on the surface of the Moon, visible to the naked eye, recently surprised NASA astronomers monitoring the Moon for meteorite strikes. Occurring […]

The post A meteorite explodes on the Moon: Q&A with geophysicist Bruce Campbell appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

In June, Odile Madden, materials scientist at the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute, was a participant on a 6-day interdisciplinary expedition to a number of beaches […]

The post Q&A: Plastics expert Odile Madden on plastic debris in Alaskan waters appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Roses, carnations and lilies are today among the most popular flowers people use to express sympathy and condolence. The simple act of sending flowers to […]

The post Funeral flowers in the Stone Age: Q&A with Smithsonian anthropologist Reuven Yeshurun appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Santa Claus and his sleigh full of gifts has been upstaged early this holiday season by news of autonomous drones possibly delivering packages to your […]

The post Package-delivering drones? Q&A with Roger Connor of the National Air and Space Museum appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Ants dominate the earth’s ecosystems and many are voracious predators that use their mandibles and sheer numbers to pin down and tear apart most other […]

The post Carabidae in the colony, seven new beetles that bunk with ants: Q&A with Terry Erwin appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

It is related to one of the world’s most destructive invasive species, and possibly the slimiest. Thirty-five pounds of live giant West African snails (Archachatina […]

The post Slimy invaders, giant snails: Q&A with mollusk expert Ellen Strong appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

The clouded leopard, a native of Southeast Asia, is among the most charismatic, secretive and least understood cat species in the world. In 2002, the […]

The post Clouded leopards, from crisis to success: Q&A with Janine Brown appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

From patterns etched into the skin of an ancient mummy to the colorful designs that adorn people today, tattoos are not just skin deep; they […]

The post Tattoos: Telling Stories in the Flesh. Q&A with Lars Krutak appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

With roughly 5,500 individuals remaining in the wild, the black rhino population is critically endangered. To help save these iconic African giants, at risk for […]

The post A Planet in Peril: Q&A with Suzan Murray of the Smithsonian Global Health Program appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Richard Wunderman is managing editor of the Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network and a geologist in the Division of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian’s […]

The post Q&A: Smithsonian volcanologist Richard Wunderman answers questions about the Aug. 23, East Coast earthquake appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

The nation’s top bird science and conservation groups have come together to publish The State of the Birds 2014—the most comprehensive review of long-term trend […]

The post The State of the Birds: Q&A with Peter Marra appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Despite many laws to protect it, a new survey reveals wild ginseng in Maryland is on the decline.

The post Wild ginseng in steep decline in Maryland, survey reveals: Q&A with Smithsonian botanist Christopher Puttock appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Katie Cramer is a MarineGEO Post-Doctoral Fellow and travels to Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama throughout the year to conduct research. Her recent paper […]

The post Q&A: Katie Cramer on the long term human impact on coral reefs in Caribbean Panama appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

Meet my friendly neighborhood green painter: Nick Cope of Green Painting, a Red Hook, Brooklyn-based 'eco-responsible' housepainting firm.

Margaret Roach, high-powered Manhattan media player turned solitude-seeking garden blogger, releases a memoir, 'And I Shall Have Some Peace There.'