Summary The Climate Adaptation Platform has been formed in response to the challenge of climate adaptation in Asia Pacific. It brings together New Zealand’s leading engineers and researchers in relevant fields, transportation and infrastructure, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, hydrology and coastal engineering, building management, disaster responses and resilience, to human and developmental sciences and population...
This workshop is a World Bank seminar, held in conjunction with the TRB conference in Washington, D.C. at the World Bank offices. It will take place on 12/13 January 2017. We would like to extend an invitation to industry partners to put forward any innovation development ideas that you would like to present. This workshop...
The first full Climate Adaptation Platform Workshop will take place on 12th December 2016 (1 pm to 4 pm) at the University of Auckland. Industry partners and donors have expressed their excitement at the idea of the Climate Adaptation Platform. In particular, feedback from the Asian Development bank was that this platform concept could address...
In September, Theuns and Pretesh attended the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Sustainable Transport Forum in Manila. Attending the forum helped facilitate a number of meetings with key ADB personnel, including senior members of the Climate Change, Transport, and Education departments, and also the Alternative Executive Director, Mario di Maio who oversees activities in the Pacific....
