The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been providing assistance to its developing member countries (DMCs) in the energy sector for the last 40 years, focusing on electricity sector expansion programs, interventions in the oil and gas sectors, institutional capacity building, and power sector reforms, governance, and efficiency improvement. ADB will …
In a bid to increase public spending and take counter cyclical measures to beat the downturn, the Government plans to spend around $2 billion towards health, education and urban amenities. Of this, over $700 million will come in the form of grants from European Commission and UK
With companies cutting production globally, carbon emissions are down, and so is the demand for certified emission reductions (CERs) or carbon credits. This has led to the price of carbon credits crashing from E25 in September to E15 last week. But according to many carbon market traders, the supply of …
Accelerating climate change poses a danger to the future health, safety, and livelihoods of people worldwide. Especially vulnerable are those who live in poverty. Rapid economic expansion in Asia and the Pacific has brought substantial benefits to the region
Improving governance and reducing vulnerability to corruption are core development challenges. Development is essentially about reducing poverty, and there is clear evidence that the poor are the most vulnerable to corruption and suffer the most from the impacts of poor governance and weakly performing institutions. This paper presents a brief …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is studying a private loan funding proposal for the Mawanana mini-hydro project in Sri Lanka. The Bank has just completed a 14-month due diligence mission on the proposed project, which would have an installed capacity of 5.4MW. Funding totalling US$ 4.2M of private loan was …
The proposed medium-term national renewable energy policy for Pakistan will pave the way for the development of renewable projects under a transparent process for reducing transaction costs, delays, and frustrations by potential investors. The two-day national consultative workshop held here on Tuesday discussed threadbare the proposed medium-term national renewable energy …
The government today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for availing $ 800-million loan for the execution of four major hydroelectric projects under the Clean Energy Development Programme. This is the highest amount of loan granted for harnessing hydroelectric potential in the country so …
Aid for four medium, mega hydel projects will boost power generation plans Making a major breakthrough in the power sector, the Prem Kumar Dhumal Government today entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to avail $ 800 million (approximately Rs 3,800 crore) funding for …
In 2000, it took a military operation to halt the march of water hyacinth in Harike, one of the internationally protected wetlands in India, famous for a large number of birds, both local and migratory. The invasive hyacinth problem was squeezing the life out of its 41-square-metre area for some …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government yesterday signed a loan agreement of 87 million US dollar to improve the basic services and infrastructure in municipal towns of Bangladesh. Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, secretary of the Economic Relations Division (ERD) and Paul J Heytens, country director of ADB, signed the …
Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a loan of $165 million to help Bangladesh boost private investment in infrastructure, mainly in the energy sector. Bangladesh and ADB signed a loan agreement for Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility (PPIDF) at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) in the city yesterday. ERD Secretary Md …
The Ministry of Water Resources has confirmed that it has submitted a proposal for North Eastern Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Management Project, Assam to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for financial support. The ADB has cleared the Project Preparatory Technical Assistance and the consultant has submitted draft feasibility report, …
AHMEDABAD: How efficient is water supply in some of the cities in state? A recent Asian Development Bank (ADB) data book of water utilities for 2007- 08 in 20 cities in country says that Ahmedabad has one of lowest water revenue collection ratios and a poor coverage of water supply …
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah says water supply schemes in Khairpur, Nawabshah, Shirkapur, Ghotki and Larkana will be completed at cost of Rs 600 million with Asian Development Bank
Consumers have no say in the bad plans made in their name mangalore is witnessing fights over water pricing. But beyond politicizing the issue, the protestors themselves are clueless about how the water in their city was priced. The Mangalore Municipal Corporation (mcc) says poor cost recovery is preventing it …
SEEN from the harsh, real world of the urban poor, the paper realm of dry statistical models would seem planets away. The irony is, this is an accurate map of the distance from the other end too. After innumerable studies, we still have no fix on the number of urban …
