Asia Pacific‘s leading platform for sustainable development
News / #multilateral development bank
Kenya's small-scale solar market shows how local capital can be just as important as big China-funded renewables projects.
Carbon & Climate
Indonesia’s captive coal: Financing industrial decarbonisation
Exploring why energy transition capital is currently being blocked from reaching the country’s captive power plants – and what to do about it.
Policy & Finance
MDBs hit record $163bn in climate finance, but advocates question support for poorest countries
Civil society groups say the bigger totals do not automatically translate into the adaptation and loss and damage support developing countries need, and warn that the World Bank’s climate retreat further weakens ambition across the multilateral development bank system.
Policy & Finance
World Bank’s China exit could lead to ‘shrinking balance sheet’, says green finance specialist
World Bank’s planned phase‑out of lending to China by 2031 removes a reliable borrower, risking a smaller balance sheet unless governance and lending rules are updated to channel more capital into riskier, lower‑income countries, according to green finance specialist Christoph Nedopil Wang.
All #multilateral development bank News
6 July 2026
10 June 2026
25 May 2026
21 May 2026
17 April 2026
11 April 2026
5 March 2026
19 January 2026
Policy & Finance
World Bank's IFC appoints Asia Pacific regional vice president
30 September 2025
19 September 2025
16 September 2025
Policy & Finance
Q&A: What next for China’s green finance?
5 September 2025
3 September 2025
1 September 2025
Most popular
-
![Nepal_Flood_UNICEF]()
The 26 August flash floods on the Nepal-China border wiped out or badly damaged 281 megawatts of installed … -
![Nepal_Women_Survivors_Flood]()
A hydroelectricity deal complicated by the need to cross through India has now been brought to a standstill … -
![Small_Scale_Miner_Camarines_Philippines]()
News / Policy & Finance
Philippines’ critical minerals push sparks Indigenous and environmental concerns
The Philippines’ new critical-minerals policy targets at least 9 million hectares (22 million acres) of prospective mineral areas, … -
![West_Kalimantan_Village_Indonesia]()
News / Energy
Indonesia’s captive coal: ‘Who is this really for?’
As captive coal plants support Indonesia’s growing nickel industry, communities in North Maluku and Central Sulawesi shoulder the … -
![Segama River Sabah]()
Opinion / Food & Agriculture
Southeast Asia holds the key to nature-positive palm oil
A nature-positive approach to agriculture, and specifically palm oil plantations, can marry mandates with production. -
![Nepal_China_Earthquake_Flood_Ravine]()
News / Carbon & Climate
Q&A: ‘There was a gap between alert and action’ in Nepal floods
Better monitoring and regional cooperation needed as Himalayan hazards become more complex.
Receive the latest insights daily or weekly.
Strategic Organisations
