Civil Society Perspectives on Just Transition and ADB’s New Energy Policy

Late last year, ADB adopted a new Energy Policy, joined with other multilateral development banks at COP26 to support a set of “Just Transition High-Level Principles,” and launched plans for operationalizing a coal retirement scheme in the region.

This roundtable, convened by the NGO Forum on ADB, will promote timely, forward-looking debates on the issues of "just transition" and climate financing at the project, programmatic, and policy levels⁠—through the eyes of representatives from civil society groups in South, Southeast, and Central Asia/the Caucasus. A respondent from the ADB Energy Sector Group will also be present to engage in the discussion.