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Glacial melt, drought, desertification and reduced river flows are among the serious climate change impacts being experienced by countries in Central and West Asia, a seminar audience heard today.

Asia has made a quick turnaround from the global economic crisis but the region still faces many challenges and must ensure that future growth is inclusive and environmentally sustainable, ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said today.

亚洲开发银行("亚行")行长黑田东彦(Haruhiko Kuroda)今日于年会上指出:"经历了全球金融危机,尽管亚洲经济恢复迅速,然而该地区仍面临诸多挑战,我们必须确保未来经济增长的共享性和环境发展的可持续性。"

ADB has boosted its technical assistance to scale up projects that provide the region's poor with better access to modern and reliable sources of clean energy.

Leading Multilateral Development Banks and the International Monetary Fund, meeting today at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, mapped out their plans to support a sustainable global recovery and agreed the Copenhagen Accord is an opportunity for action to finance measures to combat climate change.

Switches not superheroes can help save the planet from a hot, polluted and grim future, says an aspiring Filipino film maker who has scooped the grand prize in the ADB climate change video competition.

One of the first international meetings to focus on climate finance since the Copenhagen summit last December ended today with plans in place to mobilize some US$40 billion for country-led low carbon growth.

Indonesia's geothermal power capacity is set to nearly double following the endorsement of a new climate investment fund plan. The $400 million plan, endorsed by the Trust Fund Committee of the Clean Technology Fund, will help transform Indonesia's use of renewable energy and ultimately support the government to meet its long-term goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 26% in 2020.

Senior government officials and climate change experts from around the world will gather in the Philippines this week to discuss financial measures to help developing countries mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.

The Lao People's Democratic Republic is to receive grants of $3.1 million from ADB and the Nordic Development Fund to help the country become more climate resilient in the face of droughts, floods and other extreme weather events.