Visualizing Climate Change & Resilience

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. 

ADB has placed combating climate change and its consequences at the top of its development agenda. ADB works with governments and civil society to mobilize financing and implement cutting-edge knowledge to address climate change, and is the FIRST Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) to:   

• Set clear climate investment targets for 2030: ADB first committed in 2015 to increase its climate investments up to $6 billion annually by 2020—a target it met in 2019.   
• Implement a long-term climate change operational framework   
• Establish a climate risk screening and management framework for its operations   
• Disclose project-level data for all its climate projects   
• Be accredited by the Green Climate Fund—the bank supports policies, practices, and technology that lower GHG emissions and is mainstreaming a comprehensive approach to climate and disaster resilience. 

ADB's work also focuses on promoting environmental sustainability and highlighting the link between water, food, and energy. 

Other ADB Initiatives

 

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In this challenge, ADB is teaming up with Observable—an innovative technology startup company dedicated to helping everyone make sense of the world with data, together. ADB and Observable share the goal of reaching developers, data visualization practitioners, artists, and others to showcase the potential of data collaborations and visual storytelling for supporting climate research and advocacy.

We're challenging participants (individuals and teams) to tell data stories on the theme of climate change using the Observable computational notebook platform for JavaScript. Submissions should seek not only to make a data visualization that itself is visually compelling, but also to tell the story of the data, how the team chose to explore it, and the insights that teams discovered in their process.

For inspiration, participants are encouraged to review the great climate data notebooks already shared on Observable.