Key Takeaways
- ADB’s fourth Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS) will bring together decision-makers, innovators, and climate leaders from government, industry, academia, and the development sector to discuss practical ways to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
- SEADS 2023’s plenary panel discussion, “Financing Net Zero,” will explore measures to bridge the gap in climate financing, and enable countries in ASEAN to attain net-zero and the Sustainable Development Goals.
- SEADS 2023 will launch a new ADB report, ASEAN and Global Value Chains: Locking in Resilience and Sustainabliity, which provides actionable insights for strengthening ASEAN’s value chain resilience against the impacts of climate change.
- ADB SEADS 2023 will be a low-carbon event, with less than 10% of participants travelling to the sustainable venue, and with carbon offsets for every attendee.
