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![Next year is expected to mark the tipping point when Asia’s economies surpass the rest of the world in terms of purchasing power parity. But the bigger and inarguably more transformative impact will come not from this greater prosperity, but from Asia’s opportunity to embrace and drive sustainable development. Photo: BatmanV/Shutterstock. Deforested area](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/shutterstock_telegraph_deforestation.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=9ZL5KiLb)
Sustainable development in Asia: seeing both the forests and the trees
As the continent comes to dominate the global economy, it will do much to determine the fate of the global commons
As a young Asian business leader, it is fascinating to be part of an important transformation – the rise of Asia in the global economy.
Next year is expected to mark the tipping…
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![That mitigating the climate crisis must be an integrated effort is very much at the heart of how ADB as an institution is responding to this and other development challenges with its “One ADB approach”. Photo: takepicsforfun/Shutterstock. Houses in Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Photo: takepicsforfun/Shutterstock.](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/shutterstock_tonle_hap_cambodia_adb_blog.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=DdWjAQeR)
All hands on deck: the climate crisis is here
The British daily newspaper The Guardian recently updated the language it uses to write about the environment, introducing terms that more accurately describe the environmental predicament facing the world. Terms like climate change will give way to preferred terms like “climate emergency, crisis,…