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Green Bonds for Financing Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Southeast Asia: A Review of Policies

Working Papers
This ADBI Working Paper provides policy recommendations for promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency financing using green bonds in ASEAN countries. To promote renewable energy and energy efficiency, policymakers should consider limiting eligibility criteria in policies supporting green…

Green finance strategies for post-COVID-19 economic recovery in Southeast Asia

Reports and Publications
This publication assesses innovative financing instruments that promote sustainable infrastructure projects while also building back from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emissions Gap Report 2021

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This report from the UNEP provides an overview of the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

IRENA's Energy Transition Support to Strengthen Climate Action

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This report highlights the work done by the Agency during the NDCs review process, the support offered through its different work packages as well as facilitating Parties and countries with project developments, financing, and investment. The Annex lists support and NDC commitments for individual…

Phasing out unabated coal: Current status and three case studies

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This report gathers all known national commitments to eventually stop using unabated coal-fired power generation announced to date and assesses their impact in terms of reducing emissions. Three case studies from Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom are discussed.

$35 trillion is needed for a successful energy transition

Press Releases
 
According to the preview of the IRENA World Energy Transitions Outlook, the energy transition if off-course. Current plans and pledges fall below IRENA’s 1.5°C pathway and will result in an emissions gap of 16 gigatonnes in 2050. While global investments in energy transition…

Energy Access and Transition Trust Fund Approved

Press Releases
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) Energy Access and Transition Trust Fund has been approved under the Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP) Financing Partnership Facility. 
 
The Trust Fund will finance innovative distributed…

ADB calls for innovative financing for ocean health improvement

Press Releases
At the launch of the publication, Financing the Ocean Back to Health in Southeast Asia: Approaches for Mainstreaming Blue Finance, ADB called for scaling up of finance flows into ocean health improvement and related projects in Asia and the Pacific to combat growing threats from unchecked…

Loan to leverage green recovery and financing approved for Indonesia

Press Releases
On 16 February, the ADB Board approved a $150 million loan that will hedge a financing facility aimed at accelerating Indonesia’s economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and catalyzing public and private funds to support green and bankable infrastructure projects to help…

ADB signs loan to build the largest wind power plant in Central Asia

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The $52 million Zafarshan Wind Power Project loan agreement has been signed by ADB and and Shamol Zarafshan Energy Foreign Enterprise Limited Liability Company (SZE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company Private Joint Stock Company (Masdar) on 5 September. The loan will…