NGO Forum on ADB network and allies expresses deep alarm over the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) newly announced amendments to its 2021 Energy Policy, now endorsed by the ADB Board through the R-paper. Despite ADB’s framing of the changes as “technology neutral” and responsive to rising energy demand, these amendments represent a significant regression in the Bank’s commitments to climate action, fossil fuel phaseout, and people-centered development. For more than two decades

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AIIB response to Forum network at the 2025 Annual Meeting

Forum network submission on ADB Energy Policy Review 2025