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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.
Policy & Finance
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.
Policy & Finance
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.
Policy & Finance
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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News / Corporate Responsibility
Sustainability consultancy Adelie opens Asia office in Singapore
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News / Waste Management
Doubts cast over pig farm methane credits in China
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News / Corporate Responsibility
Japan firms least confident on net zero among G7, BSI survey shows
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Research by the Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) and Greenpeace shows the number of villages across …
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