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ADB Supports China Gas to Ensure Uninterrupted Gas Supplies to Combat COVID-19 in Hubei Province

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BEIJING, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (31 March 2020) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and China Gas Holdings Ltd. (CGH) today signed a $20 million private sector loan agreement to support natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) deliveries to households, hospitals, industry, and services…

Green Climate Fund allocates $300 million for ADB’s first Green Recovery Program in Southeast Asia

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On 19 March the GCF Board approved $300 million allocation for the Green Recovery Program under the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility Fund that is being managed by ADB to help Southeast Asia embark on a climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable economic recovery from the coronavirus…

COVID-19 and Energy Sector Development in Asia and the Pacific: Guidance Note

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While COVID-19 has resulted in severe global health and economic crises, it also presents an opportunity for a green, sustainable, and resilient recovery enabled by sustainable energy. The guidance note looks into how the energy sector is responding across the region and what more can be done. It…

Implementing a Green Recovery in Southeast Asia

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This ADB Brief explains the rationale for a green recovery in Southeast Asia, what constitutes green recovery, and how it can meet multiple objectives in preventing future pandemics, pull the economy back on track, address the adverse impacts of climate change and bring the region towards…

Managing Infectious Medical Waste during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Energy SG stepping up to support ADB response to COVID-19As the whole ADB organization positions itself to urgently provide the necessary support to its DMCs in fighting the spread of the new coronavirus, the Energy Sector Group has also geared up its experts and shifted some of its work…

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

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

An assessment tool for building back strong and sustainable from the COVID-19 pandemic published

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The Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division has released an assessment tool that provides a recovery framework interfacing various objectives in climate, low-carbon growth, and resilience.​​​​​​​This tool will help ADB developing member countries seize the opportunity presented by the…

How ADB is Helping Asia and the Pacific Bounce from COVID-19 and Chart a Green Future

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ADB committed $22.8 billion in loans, grants, guarantees, equity investments, and technical assistance in 2021. This includes supporting its developing member countries address, cope, and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic while focusing on the priority areas of its long-term Strategy 2030, such as…

Navigating the Challenges to a Clean Energy Future

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Our very own Energy SG Chief, Priyantha Wijayatunga shares his thoughts about the great task ahead. In this article, he talks about the brass tacks of overcoming the challenges, taking the opportunities, and realizing the aspirations of the energy transition. 
 

Navigating the Challenges to a Clean Energy Future

Press Releases
Our very own Energy SG Chief, Priyantha Wijayatunga shares his thoughts about the great task ahead. In this article, he talks about the brass tacks of overcoming the challenges, taking the opportunities, and realizing the aspirations of the energy transition.