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Q&A: Meeting Asia and the Pacific’s Growing Electricity Needs
ADB’s Energy Sector Group Chief Priyantha Wijayatunga discusses Asia and the Pacific’s growing energy needs and the clean and efficient energy solutions that can help meet them.
Q&A: Narrowing the Development Gap: Follow-Up Monitor of the ASEAN Framework for Equitable Economic Development
A new ADB report finds that the path to recovery has proven uneven and diverse, yielding development gaps among member countries of ASEAN.
SEADS 2023: Call for Accelerated Climate Action Towards a Net-Zero ASEAN
SEADS 2023 amplified the urgent call for climate action to ensure Southeast Asia’s carbon neutrality by 2050, and highlighted the importance of partnerships to accelerate climate financing and decarbonization.
Ties That Bind: BIMP-EAGA and IMT-GT Are Vital Building Blocks for ASEAN
At their respective leaders’ summits in Indonesia, both subregional programs demonstrated their ongoing contribution to regional economic resilience, with key support from ADB and other development partners.
Seven Funding Innovations to Boost Climate Finance
Devastating floods, deadly heatwaves, and intense droughts in Asia and the Pacific over the past year confirm what scientists have been warning for years: the impacts of climate change are here and they’re getting worse.
Q&A: The SDGs Won't Be Achieved Without Private Capital. Here's How ADB Mobilizes It
The challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 is becoming more difficult—and more costly. Asia and the Pacific, like other regions, is lagging on SDG progress. UNESCAP now says that at this rate the SDGs won’t be achieved until 2065.
Q&A: Addressing Intertwined Challenges in Central Asia and the Caucasus through Regional Cooperation
ADB Director for Regional Cooperation in Central and West Asia Lyaziza Sabyrova explains how regional cooperation can address challenges, and how ADB supports the region through the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.
Q&A: Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment in Asia and the Pacific
Advancing gender equality in Asia and the Pacific is an ongoing priority for ADB. Gender and development is mainstreamed in all stages of ADB’s project cycle, and ADB is on track to exceed its commitment to promote gender equality in at least 75% of its sovereign and non-sovereign operations by 2030.
Q&A: Innovative Financing Can Help Bridge Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Financing Gap
Southeast Asia faces a burgeoning infrastructure financing gap in urgent need of attention to ensure sustainable economic expansion.
Q&A: Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP)
The Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific, or IF-CAP, is a multi-donor financing partnership facility with the goal of scaling-up finance for accelerated action against climate change in Asia and the Pacific.