![center for environmental visualization center for environmental visualization](https://www.arch.rpi.edu/wp-content/uploads/AlyEtman_FT_-1-450x450.jpg)
The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia. USAID also helps countries lay the foundations for sustainable growth powered by clean energy and healthy landscapes. USAID is sharing world-class knowledge, data and tools to ensure countries can predict, prepare for and adapt to change. Countries around the world are feeling the effects of climate change, from more intense heat waves, droughts, floods and storms to slower-moving changes like ocean acidification. USAID’s work safeguards this mission and puts countries on a path to pursue clean energy growth and resilient, low-carbon development. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead U.S. USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID RDMA) Learn More about Speakers About Organizers Integrated Resource Planning for Spatial Multi-criteria Analysis Studies in Thailand, and the Transboundary 3S Basin in VietnamĬourtney Weatherby, Deputy Director and Research Analyst. Peeranan Towashiraporn, Chief of Party, SERVIR-Mekong and Amanda Market, NASA's Regional Science Coordination Lead for SERVIR-Mekong Satellite Data as Decision-making Tools for Infrastructure Planning through Climate-sensitive Challenges.
![center for environmental visualization center for environmental visualization](https://www.nupsys.com/assets/images/3d-visualization-data-center-infrastructure-16-600x402-15.jpg)
Utilizing the Mekong Infrastructure Tracker in Power Planning Analysis to Address Environmental Impactsīrian Eyler, Director, Southeast Asia Program. Integrated Resource Planning in Renewable Energy Planning in the Mekong Subregion Amanda Van Den Dool, Energy and Infrastructure Team Lead, USAID Regional Development Mission Asia. Chow, Chief of Party, USAID Mekong Safeguards. It also directly supports finding solutions to several challenges identified in ADB’s 2030 strategy, including supporting climate change adaptation, addressing disaster risk, ensuring social protections for those in need, and accelerating low greenhouse gas emissions development. This event supports technical roadmaps to achieve nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and supports consultations to make the ADB Energy Policy more relevant. We will also explore how planners, policy-makers, investors and communities can use satellite data layers and open-source visualization tools to integrate environmental, social, and climate-change related considerations into power planning. This side event aims to educate audiences on how integrated resource planning is being applied to the power sector in Mekong subregion countries to strengthen environmental and social standards through national Power Development Plans in countries like Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Furthermore, utilizing recent more robust GIS data augments the IRP process to address power sector resilience to climate change related impacts.
#CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VISUALIZATION FULL#
Planning and Integrating comprehensive methods requires a full view of the landscape but results in strengthening sustainable infrastructure development and reducing negative impacts to the people.
![center for environmental visualization center for environmental visualization](https://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/users/cave6d.jpg)
Incorporating IRP principles supported by mapping and visualization of relevant data can ensure that full social and environmental costs and ‘non-traditional’ options, such as demand-side management and renewable energy (RE) are fully integrated into the national PDP. This event will demonstrate how both new and recent IRP methods and GIS data visualizations can be used to significantly avoid negative environmental and social impacts of power projects. International practices show Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process may help, though some methods are dated. These PDPs are typically prepared based on least-cost electricity generation options intended to meet electricity demand forecasted for specific time horizons. Decision-making in energy infrastructure development in Lower Mekong Countries tend to be highly centralized and are mainly guided by their national Power Development Plans (PDP).