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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised the equivalent of $339 million from its second sale of Clean Energy Bonds to Japanese retail investors. The bonds will support ADB’s ongoing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Asia and the Pacific.

Officials from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will visit Honiara today to meet with Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo and other senior government officials for discussions on ADB’s support to Solomon Islands.

Asian and Pacific governments must find ways to reduce food waste and storage losses, encourage rural development, and provide well-targeted safety nets to protect the poor from hunger, says a new report presented today at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of ADB.

Growth in the Asia and Pacific region is strong, but growth alone is not enough for the region to succeed in an era of global change, ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said in his annual address to the ADB Board of Governors.

Countries in the region must take immediate action to help prevent catastrophic climate change, delegates at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank’s Board of Governors (ADB) heard today.

Frequent flooding in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) must be anticipated and managed so that people living in flood-affected areas can find ways to adjust to flood cycles, a new report from the Asian Development Bank says.

Ministers and senior government officials, business leaders, fellow international financial institutions, and civil society representatives are set to gather in Manila, Philippines from 2-5 May for the 45th Annual Meeting of ADB, which will focus on inclusive growth through better governance and partnerships.

Climate change will cause an upward surge in migration this century, and governments in disaster-prone Asia-Pacific nations must promptly enact a broad range of measures to stave off future humanitarian crises, according to a new ADB report released today.

Nothing less than transformational change will be required to build societies in Asia and the Pacific that are resilient to climate change, Bindu Lohani, ADB Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, stressed today in his keynote speech at the Second Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum.

The management of food, water and energy resources in the Greater Mekong Subregion will be the most critical challenge of the coming decade, requiring careful balance of economic and environmental interests and better management of natural resources, a conference on the future of the region heard today.