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10 June 2025
The ADB undertakes Business Opportunities Seminars (BOS) for its members to enhance the interest and ability of eligible suppliers to identify ADB business opportunities, prepare high-quality and responsive bids, and understand ADB’s procurement and anti-corruption procedures.
These activities…
Organizer: Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department
2 to 6 June 2025
The Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), an annual flagship event of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), will be held from 2 to 6 June 2025 at the ADB Headquarters in Manila, Philippines, under the theme “Empowering the Future: Clean Energy Innovations, Regional Cooperation and Integration, and Financing…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
2 to 4 June 2025
The Emerging Areas Energy Sector team of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) hosted four workshops at the Joy Nostalg Hotel in Manila, Philippines. The event brought together policymakers, regulators, utilities, and development partners from ADB’s developing member countries—particularly Pacific Small…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
31 May 2025
Under current climate projections, much of the world’s stored freshwater is set to disappear within the coming decades. Despite this significant impact on the freshwater supply, there is no straightforward pathway to future-proof communities relying on the frozen stores in the mountain cryosphere…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office
30 May 2025
The countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Pakistan are home to a significant portion of Asia's glaciers. It is estimated that around 80 per cent of the total river runoff in Central Asia is supplied by meltwater from snow, glaciers, and permafrost in the region. These rivers comprise a…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office
6 May 2025
Bringing together trade unionists and ADB representatives, the discussion provided a clear understanding of how a just transition can be incorporated in the bank’s agenda. The panelists discussed the implications of global transformations on protecting human and workers' rights.…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
4 to 7 May 2025
The Civil Society Program at the 58th ADB Annual Meeting in Milan underscored the importance of ADB's engagement with civil society and its role in facilitating and improving development outcomes across Asia and the Pacific. The program included 11 events held over four days, with over 200…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
4 May 2025
Civil society stakeholders offered grassroots perspectives on the realities faced by vulnerable communities. The emphasis was on actions that avoid perpetuating inequities and undermining efforts to build sustainable economies at the pace and scale necessary.
ADB’s current Energy Policy…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
23 April 2025
This webinar explored Asia's decarbonization transition, focusing on carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal and the role of international development financiers, such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in accelerating this transition.
The session included panel presentations from governments and the…
Organizer: Energy Sector Office
3 April 2025
Government of PNG and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed on the need of a National Power Sector Forum that will bring all key players in the sector and senior government decision makers in one place to discuss the sector issues, challenges, opportunities and way forward with actionable…
Organizer: Pacific Department