NGO Forum on ADB Network Statement on ADB Energy Policy Review 2025 A Decade in the Paris Agreement & Worsening Climate Crisis  This year marks the first decade marking the Paris Agreement. The historic climate accord has set the crucial targets globally in the hopes of preventing the irreversible impacts of climate change by the second half of the century. Unfortunately, the objective of limiting the temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is getting slower and slow

The inputs are grounded in the NGO Forum on ADB’s long-standing position: that any dilution, discretion, or delay in safeguards disproportionately exposes affected communities and ecosystems to foreseeable harm. Below we highlight concrete passages that, as drafted, could enable such harms—especially through deferral, carve-outs, and “materially consistent” substitutions—followed by proposed fixes. Overview The draft ESS1 guidance enhances structure and terminology, but it st

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) Project-affected People’s Mechanism (PPM) is intended to provide a forum for...

As mandated by the 2021 Energy Policy, the Asian Development Bank is now undertaking a midterm review of its existing policy. However,...

Manila, Philippines  — Civil society groups across Asia and the Pacific have condemned the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 2025 Energy...