Environment: News Releases

ADB and Mongolia today signed agreements to help improve air quality in Ulaanbaatar; sustain access to quality education; and improve inclusivity by providing better opportunities for people with disabilities.

ADB today signed a $1 million grant agreement with the Government of Papua New Guinea to help fund priority early recovery activities following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, which struck Hela Province on 26 February.

ADB's Board of Directors has approved a $130 million policy-based loan to help improve public health and enhance the quality of life in Ulaanbaatar by improving the air quality in the increasingly polluted Mongolian capital.

ADB today signed facilities of a total of $250 million in loans to Arctic Green Energy Corporation and Sinopec Green Energy Geothermal Company Limited to expand environmentally sustainable district heating services in the PRC.

ADB has secured $190 million in total funding—comprising of $85 million in grants and $105 million in concessional loans—from the Green Climate Fund for its climate change projects in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Tajikistan.

ADB is providing an additional $1 million, in the form of a grant, to the Government of Tonga to fund critical, life-saving services following Tropical Cyclone Gita, which caused widespread destruction on 12 February.

ADB has provided $6 million to the Government of Tonga to help fund priority early recovery activities following the onslaught of Tropical Cyclone Gita, which tore through Tongatapu and nearby ‘Eua island, late on 12 February.

Environment ministers from the Greater Mekong Subregion endorsed a 5-year environment agenda that includes more than $540 million worth of priority projects to spur green investments and increase environmental cooperation.

ADB expresses its condolences to the families of those who were killed in the recent tropical storms in the Philippines that impacted the Visayas and Mindanao regions.

ADB and the Government of Nepal handed over the newly reconstructed Shree Kali Devi Primary School in Kavre District to the community at a ceremony today.