20 June 2011: The Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Data Initiative, which is supported by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) and the World Bank through its Development Grant Facility (DGF), is calling for data on air pollution, GHG emissions and related data and statistics for the transport and energy sectors from institutions, corporations, partnerships, forums and other groups.
24 June 2011: The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Sixth Asia Clean Energy Forum 2011, themed “New Business Models and Policy Drivers - Building the Low-Carbon Future,” took place from 22-24 June 2011 in Manila, Philippines, preceded by preparatory meetings from 20-21 June. The Forum was framed around four overarching thematic areas: policy and regulation; financing and investment; innovative business models; and energy for all.
23 June 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will lend US$50 million to the Portuguese financial institution Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento SA (BESI), which will in turn lend towards infrastructure, renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Latin America.
23 June 2011: The World Bank Board of Directors has approved two projects in the Caribbean, amounting to US$47.12 million, to improve the safety of their buildings from the impacts of climate change and increase their public institutions' capacity to assess natural risks. The funding is from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), which is geared toward vulnerable countries and small island developing States (SIDS).
20 June 2011: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has granted a EUR 85 million loan to Air Liquide Ukraine LLC (ALU) to finance the development, construction and operation of a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) at Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works (EMZ) in South-East Ukraine.
14 June 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $90 million facility to support on-lending to energy efficiency, cleaner production and renewable energy projects through Colombian financial institutions.
9 June 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Nature Conservancy and the FEMSA Foundation have launched a US$27 million dollar initiative to create water funds, private-public partnerships to protect critical watersheds in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Mexico and other countries.
This Policy Dialogue hosted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) seeks to present the ADB technical assistance project on policy options to support climate-induced migration in Asia and the Pacific and its preliminary findings to a selected group of government representatives, local policy-makers, and scholars, as well as engage in a discussion and discuss recommendations on suggested policy options and financial mechanisms.
This workshop, organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the ADB Institute (ADBI) and the Energy Research Institute (ERI), will seek to discuss the outline and contents of the background papers being prepared for the ADB/ADBI Study on Climate Change and Green Asia, and to get feedback from policy makers, academics and international experts.
8 June 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Government of New Zealand and the Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (Fontagro) have partnered to work on climate change mitigation and agriculture projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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