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Interim Programme Director @re-course.org, views my own.
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🚨Bhola IPP: People & Ecology in Peril uncovers how AIIB & MIGA are fueling destruction in Bangladesh.

👉 Register: forms.gle/vSp6NMsQhybJ...
📅 Premiere: October 17, 2025 [3:00 PM GMT +6]
▶️ Teaser 1: youtu.be/Zr3fZDFbdCk?...

#BholaIPP #StopFossilFuelFinance #AIIB #MIGA #Bangladesh
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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World Bank Group guarantees — not as "green" as they seem?⚠️

New research shows how MIGA guarantees are boosting big banks’ ability to invest in fossil fuels, including

🇲🇿 🇨🇦🇻🇳 LNG in Mozambique, Canada, Vietnam
🇦🇷 Oil & gas in Argentina

Find out more: bit.ly/MIGA25

#FfD4People #FfD4 #WorldBank
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July 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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⭐ Join our remote team ⭐

We are hiring a Campaign Manager to focus on sustainable renewables in the just energy transition.

It's an exciting & challenging role involving research, advocacy, teamwork, and collaboration with partners around the world.

Details👉 re-course.org/jobs-at-reco... #NGOjobs
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May 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Energy finance was another hot topic. As the bank reviews its Energy Policy, the stakes are high.

@petrakw.bsky.social: "This could be the new ADB President Kanda's moment to shine" 👉 linkedin.com/posts/petrakjell_last-week-i-attended-the-asian-development-activity-7328405191056121856-R8wO #ADBNews
Last week I attended the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Annual Meeting in… | Petra Kjell Wright
Last week I attended the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Annual Meeting in Milan. A hot topic was the pending Energy Policy review. The current policy, approved in 2021, saw the ADB rule out most forms ...
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May 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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#ADBAnnualMeeting wrap-up 🫔

Civil society groups called for reform of the bank's Accountability Mechanism and questioned the new "mutual reliance" approach.

@kategeary.bsky.social writes 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/kate-geary68_ive-been-at-the-asian-development-bank-activity-7327627535314268160-uK_Y
I’ve been at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual meeting last week… | Kate Geary
I’ve been at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual meeting last week, where the bank’s accountability to communities harmed by its investments dominated the agenda. Participants brought stories of...
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May 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The Asian Development Bank has long called itself the region's “climate bank” but the phrase was hardly anywhere to be found at its annual meetings last week in Milan, Italy.
Is ADB still Asia and the Pacific’s ‘climate bank’?
Is ADB still Asia and the Pacific’s ‘climate bank’?
www.devex.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This week we're at the @adb.org #ADBAnnualMeetings with dozens of Coalition's members & partners from across #Asia & the #Caucasus. What are the key issues at stake and key demands we're bringing?

🎥 Sukhgerel Dugersuren (OT Watch | Rivers Without Boundaries #Mongolia) shares her insights (1/2)
May 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The Dieng 2 geothermal project, which causing serious #pollution & #health, is bringing more harm than benefits for the local community. To advance a #JustEnergyTransition, the ADB should focus on small-scale projects more aligned with communities' needs.

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May 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The ADB brands itself as the #climate bank of the Asia-Pacific & says it's investing billions to tackle climate change. But many of the projects presented as clean or green (such as #Dieng2) are resulting in serious environmental damage and human rights violations.

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May 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This week Titi Soentoro (Aksi!) traveled from #Indonesia to #Milan to attend the #ADBAnnualMeeting & share with the @adb.org the concerns of communities affected by the Dieng 2 #geothermal energy project.

🎥 In this interview, Titi explains why this project is so concerning (1/3)
May 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"We want the @adb.org to close any kind of loopholes and to stop funding coal and other fossil fuels" (Novita Indri | Trend Asia, #Indonesia)

👇 Watch here the 2nd part of the interview.
May 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Despite branding itself as the climate bank of Asia & Pacific, @adb.org is still supporting #coal and #gas projects in #Indonesia, because of loopholes in its policies.

In this interview, Novita Indri (TrendAsia) shares some of key messages she brought to the #ADBAnnualMeetings last week.

👇Part 1
May 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Despite the Asian Development Bank's commitment global climate goals, its technical assistance is still supporting #FossilGas — a highly polluting fossil fuel that is risky for economies, communities and the environment.

📽️ Rajneesh Bhuee #ADBAnnualMeeting @adb.org
📃Read the briefing bit.ly/ADB-TA25
May 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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📢 @adb.org, Asia needs a truly JUST energy transition! 🌏🔥

✅ Community-led 🏡
✅ Human rights first ✊
✅ No fossil fuels 🚫🛢️
⚠️ No more false solutions—it's time for real action & accountability!

#StopFundingFossils #ADBAnnualMeeting
May 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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We’re at the #ADBAnnualMeeting in Milan this week, calling for stronger accountability, an improved energy policy, and faster, fairer progress on a just energy transition.

Follow us & @rightsindevt.bsky.social for updates.

#ADBNews #JustTransition #StrongSafeguardsNow #AccountabilityInDevelopment
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May 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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🚨Civil society groups are pressing for urgent reforms to the @adb.org Accountability Mechanism at its annual meeting this week.

Read the recommendations for strengthening the independence, accessibility and effectiveness of the AM
📩 re-course.org/newsupdates/...

#ADBNews #ADBAnnualMeeting
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May 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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📍In Milan for the #ADBAnnualMeeting?

Join us tomorrow for a discussion on co-financing of projects by the WorldBank & @adb.org, and the new Full Mutual Reliance Framework. We'll hear from experts on accountability from around the world.

🕙 10.30-12.00 in the CSO centre, level 0, south wing
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May 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Debt-for-nature swaps have failed to deliver real benefits for the Global South - so why expect them to fund the clean energy transition?

We break down why we need grants + debt cancellation, not more debt swaps

Read in @devex.com w/ Power Shift Africa -
Opinion: Why debt swaps are failing the renewable energy transition
Given the performance of debt-for-nature swaps to date, the idea that these could finance the clean energy transition is unsound.
www.devex.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🚨New in #ObserverSpring25

IMF's 2025 Conditionality Review risks repeating past failures: austerity, debt traps & unrealistic recovery targets fuel inequality while prioritising repayment to creditors. #IMF #DebtCrisis #Austerity @re-course.org @eurodadnews.bsky.social

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The IMF’s 2025 Conditionality Review: a test of reform or repeat?
Austerity-driven programmes continue to deepen economic hardship, entrench inequality, and prioritise creditors over sustainable development.
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April 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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"The military has the resources — they have helicopters, trucks. But in the last three days, we haven't seen any of that being used to help people in areas like Sagaing," said Khin Ohmar of Progressive Voice, a human rights group monitoring aid efforts.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Myanmar's earthquake survivors accuse the military of holding up aid
Human rights groups fear the military is using logistical challenges as an excuse to withhold aid from rebel-held areas.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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This #InternationalWomensDay, let’s celebrate the women leading the way in the just #EnergyTransition across the Global South💡

From solar-powered enterprise in Kenya to microgrid initiatives in Bangladesh, women are proving that clean energy is possible

📣 @rajbhuee.bsky.social #IWD2025 #MDBs
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March 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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#FinanceInCommon2025 #FiCS 🌍

250+ civil society groups call on development banks to champion a new era of development finance by putting human rights, community leadership & environmental sustainability at the core of all their decisions.

🗞️ Press release rightsindevelopment.org/news/pr-fics25/
Press release: Civil society at the Finance in Common Summit calls for community-led, equitable, and human rights-based development | The Coalition for Human Rights in Development
As public development banks gather for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town, South Africa, civil society and community activists from across the world are demanding a shift to a community-...
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February 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Today, civil society groups will meet with the Asian Development Bank to discuss critical minerals for the #EnergyTransition

These minerals (eg lithium, nickel, bauxite) are vital components of clean energy technologies. But how they are mined, and who benefits, matters.

#JustMinerals 💎🧵
February 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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When it comes to #RenewableEnergy investments, multilateral development banks must be held to the highest standards for people & the planet

🌞 Read the criteria for public finance investments in renewables, now available in French & Spanish

🔗 bit.ly/BoR24 #BankOnRenewables
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February 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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NEW: researchers say a surge in ocean heating is a sign that climate change is ACCELERATING...

What more will it take for world leaders to act on climate change? 🌍

www.newscientist.com/article/2465...
Surge in ocean heat is a sign climate change is accelerating
The rate of warming in the oceans has more than quadrupled since 1985, suggesting global warming in general has undergone a marked acceleration
www.newscientist.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM