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Improved water pricing can crowd much-needed investments into the water cycle and facilitate transfers from advanced to developing economies, the bank’s economists told Eco-Business.
Polisi & Kewangan
Oxfam Asia doubles down on questioning multilateral banks’ pursuit of private climate finance
Sunil Acharya, Oxfam’s policy and campaigns coordinator for Asia, tells Eco-Business why he thinks the greater use of guarantees to mobilise financing in the private sector is problematic, especially as MDB lending is still at market rates. Globally, the charity is pushing to “decolonise the aid sector” which it says is broken.
Polisi & Kewangan
NGOs boycott AIIB annual meeting, citing a ‘troubling pattern of exclusion’ of impacted communities
While this year’s forum is the first to include civil society talks, NGOs say the China-based multilateral bank did not give them control over the agenda. Doubts have also been cast on the efficacy of AIIB's accountability mechanism for environmental and social issues, which has rejected all five complaints to date.
Polisi & Kewangan
Sorting out the messy economics for a fair climate transition
The region's multilateral development banks and state investment funds appear to be in flux about how money is raised and funnelled towards the energy transition with carbon pricing splitting views.
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Philippines urges Southeast Asian neighbours to accelerate renewable energy, stabilise food security at Asean summit
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Berita / Bandar-bandar
Mumbai fishers raise alarm over plight of 45,000 mangroves
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Berita / Tenaga
South Korean chipmakers emerge in ranking of companies with biggest global AI revenue growth
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Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian
Asean’s next generation of biofuels needs resilience beyond blending
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Berita / Pembuatan
India needs more scrap to boost green steelmaking. Can it find it?
If the world’s second largest steel producer is to cut emissions in the sector, the country must navigate …
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