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2023 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance
Full text linkThis 13th edition of the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance is an overview of climate finance committed in 2023 by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the New Development Bank (NDB) and the World Bank Group (WBG)
2015 Joint Report On Multilateral Development Banks\u27 Climate Finance
No full textThis fifth edition of the Joint Multilateral Development Banks\u27 Report on Climate Finance reports on financing committed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank forReconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDBG), and the World Bank Group (WBG), to climate change mitigation and adaptation projects and activities in 2015. This year\u27s report was coordinated by ADB. The data and statistics presented in this year\u27s report comply with the methodologies developed by the MDBs and applied uniformly to the MDBs\u27 portfolios. In this report, the term "MDB climate finance" refers to the financial resources committed by MDBs to development operations and components thereof, which deliver climate change mitigation and adaptation co-benefits in developing and emerging economies. Collectively, the MDBs committed USD 25,096 million in climate finance in 2015 -USD 20,072 million for mitigation finance and USD 5,024 million for adaptation finance. Since 2011, the MDBs have financed more than USD 131 billion in climate action in developing and emerging economies. The net total climate co-finance committed in 2015 alongside MDB resources was USD 55,749 million. When combined with the MDB climate finance, the total climate finance is USD 80,845 million, as shown in the figure below. This is the first edition of the Joint MDBs\u27 Report on Climate Finance to include climate co-finance
New Horizons in Latin America and Caribbean - Asia Development Cooperation
Full text linkThis brochure belongs to the High-Level Seminar: New Horizons in Latin America and Caribbean - Asia Development Cooperation Identifying Development Solutions through South-South and Triangular Cooperation. The discussion panel included keynote remarks by ADB President Takehiko Nakao and IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno, and featured as guest speakers Yi Gang, Deputy Governor of the People\u27s Bank of China and Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Akihiko Tanaka, President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Duk-Hoon Lee, President of the Export-Import Bank of Korea, and Kyttack Hong, Chairman and CEO of the Korea Development Bank
2014 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks\u27 Climate Finance
No full textThe Joint Report on MDB Climate Finance captures a particular context of activities that Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) carry out in developing and emerging economies. The context is built on the premise that development finance is being provided in a world shaped by climate change. This is the fourth year that MDBs have carried out joint reporting on climate finance. The report is based on the joint MDB approach for climate finance tracking and reporting, for which details are provided in Section 2. The MDBs have worked consistently to improve this joint approach and refine reporting. This year\u27s report was coordinated by the World Bank Group and prepared by professional staff from the following MDBs: African Development Bank (AfDB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), European Investment Bank (EIB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the International Finance Corporate (IFC) and World Bank (WB) from the World Bank Group (WBG)- all together referred in the report as the MDBs
Shaping the Future: Asia-Pacific and Latin America-Caribbean Cooperation: ADB and IDB Partnership for South-South Cooperation
Full text linkCooperation between Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is rapidly increasing in the spirit of South-South cooperation. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) enter into a new chapter of cooperation in areas such as sustainable integration corridors (trade facilitation, transportation, energy, and telecommunications, including broadband investment and regulation); sustainable cities and climate change; institutional development; social policy and gender; trade and investment regimes; trade finance and private sector development; and cross-regional research and development effectiveness as well as management for development results. This brochure details the challenges and opportunities in the Asia-LAC relationship and discusses the role of the ADB and the IDB
Progress Report (2014-2015) of the MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport
Full text link1. In the third year of the Multilateral Development Banks¿1 (MDBs) Joint Statement of 2012, our eight MDBs are on target to meet the goal of the Commitment to Sustainable Transport (hereafter the Rio+20 Commitment) to provide more than 20 billion of new funding for transport projects was added to the 25 billion approved in 2013. 2. This $20 billion in funding comprised more than 193 approvals. 2 including: 103 for roads, 32 for urban transport , 14 for rail; 9 for airports. 6 for inland waterway and maritime projects, 29 for other transport projects. 3. In addition, more than 192 technical assistance (TA) projects were approved to support policy development, research and capacity building. 4. Increasingly, our MDBs are supporting more sustainable types of transport projects¿transport that is accessible, affordable, efficient, financially sustainable, environmentally friendly, and safe. Under a common reporting framework, our institutions have continued to make progress in assessing the sustainability of our transport lending in economic, social, and environmental terms. 5. In 2014, all MDBs completed an assessment of the sustainability of our entire annual transport lending, up from four MDBs in the year before. ADB used the Sustainability. Appraisal Rating Framework (STAR) while six MDBs used a modified version of STAR. WB used its own internal methodology. For MDBs that applied STAR or a modified STAR, a common four-point scale was used although the results are not yet fully comparable. Further efforts will be made to improve the comparability of ratings between the MDBs in the future. 6. The MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport (WGST) identified quantitative indicators of project outputs and outcomes that can be used to complement the sustainability assessment. In this regard, relevant output and outcome indicators with readily available data are reported in the ¿In numbers¿ feature of each MDB, e.g. kilometer (km) of roads built or upgraded, km of railways built or upgraded, volume of transport mitigation investment, and percentage of road projects with road safety components. Discussions are ongoing to further harmonize reporting on indicators. 7. The year 2015 marks several important milestones in the international dialogue on development which are directly relevant to sustainable transport. These include completion of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and adoption of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Second Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety to mark the mid-point of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety. 8. The newly approved SDGs are expected to raise the attention given to addressing the different dimensions of sustainable transport, which will be conducive to the role of MDB-financed sustainable transport projects and programs. Our MDBs expect to take part in the process of deciding the indicators to be used for tracking progress on meeting the SDG targets and will make efforts to incorporate the indicators in our work
Urban population, 1980-2001
Full text linkSources: Asian Development Bank, Growth and Changes in Asia the Pacific; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat (Brunei); Statistical Yearbook of Vietnam; Statistical Yearbook of Singapore
Legal Framework for Improving Carbon Management in Grasslands in the People's Republic of China
No full textThis "Preliminary analysis of three environmental laws in relation to carbon management" is a component of the Regional TA on managing grassland areas in the face of climate change in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The regional capacity development technical assistance (TA) for Strengthening Carbon Financing for Regional Grassland Management in Northeast Asia is a continuation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) support for regional cooperation among the countries of Northeast Asia to combat dust and sandstorms. Overall, the TA contributes to the implementation of the regional master plan that was prepared under the TA on Prevention and Control of Dust and Sandstorms in Northeast Asia. In particular, the PRC TA focuses on land management techniques that improve soil carbon levels and therefore contributes to the reduction of land degradation from the effects of climate change. The principal aim of this preliminary analysis is to provide information on the capacity of three selected PRC environmental laws relating to the management of carbon associated with agricultural land use activity in the grassland areas, as a contribution to the regional TA. Specifically, the analysis investigates the capability of the PRC Agriculture Law 2003 to manage soil carbon, including its relationship with the PRC Grassland Law 2002 and the PRC Desertification Law 2001 (the national laws), from an integrated perspective in relation to the management of soil organic carbon (SOC) in PRC grasslands
The Role of Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Public Private Partnerships
No full textPresentation delivered during the seminar "Desarrollo de Infraestructura para un Crecimiento Económico Sostenible. Lecciones Aprendidas de la Experiencia Española", celebrated in Madrid, Spain, October 2009. It analyses the role of the Asian Development Bank regarding Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Asia and the challenges after its financial crisis. The presentation also details some of the initiatives from the Bank to improve the economic level in that region through PPP assistance and technical support
Strategic Directions for Human Development in Papua New Guinea
No full textThere is an emerging consensus in Papua New Guinea (PNG) -- both at the governmental level and among civil society more generally -- that human development outcomes are far less than satisfactory and that service provision in many parts of the country is collapsing despite the significant level of both government and development partner financing of the human development sectors. In response, the government and the Joint Donors -- the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the World Bank -- embarked on a Human Development Review to suggest options for improving human development outcomes and government expenditure efficiency. In this review of strategy options for health, HIV/AIDS, and education, it is argued that human development sectors are at an important crossroad with a large unfinished agenda and a range of critical challenges
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