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Asia: Stronger Regional Cooperation Can Promote Inclusive Growth, Says ADB President

STRONGER REGIONAL cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific can help to spread the benefits of development and promote inclusive growth in the region, ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda told a seminar at the 40th Annual Meeting yesterday.

In his opening remarks at the seminar, ?Emerging Asian Regionalism: Ten Years After the Crisis,? Mr. Kuroda said regionalism can help achieve the long-term vision of a poverty-free Asia, which is still home to two thirds of the world?s poor.
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Asia: ADB Must Evolve with a Changing Region

KYOTO, JAPAN – With Asia set to undergo dynamic changes within a generation, ADB must evolve with the region, a seminar audience heard today at ADB’s 40th Annual Meeting in Kyoto.

The Governors’ Seminar on ?Facing Asia’s Future? discussed the recent report of an Eminent Persons Group (EPG) convened by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda to advise on future trends and challenges facing the region and ADB’s long-term role in addressing them.
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In Kyoto, Activists Challenge ADB

KYOTO: The People?s Forum on Asian Development Bank, a coalition of Japanese civil society organisations and groups from across Asia, was inaugurated with a public symposium at the Doshisha University here today. Over 300 representatives from the student community, worker?s and women?s groups, and NGOs participated in the event that put the spotlight on the adverse impacts of the ADB in Asia. The Forum is the people?s counter to the ongoing 40th Annual Governors Meeting of the ADB being held at Kyoto International Convention Center (KICC).

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Clean Energy Agenda Must Look Beyond 2012, Seminar Told

THE CLEAN energy agenda must move beyond the close of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 to manage the threat of climate change, a seminar audience heard today in Kyoto.

?Given Asia’s phenomenal growth, its energy and development agenda has become a matter of global attention,? ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss said at a seminar on ?Clean Energy and Environment: Building on Kyoto? at ADB’s 40th Annual Meeting.

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Asia: Greenpeace calls on the ADB to respond to climate emergency

Kyoto, Japan: Greenpeace today called on the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) to support an emergency response equal to the severity of climate
change impacts (1). Only by putting all its resources and expertise behind an
energy revolution based on renewable energy and energy efficiency can the Bank
remain relevant. ?The ADB must shift now to supporting real solutions ?
renewable energy and energy efficiency. Failure to do so spells disaster for
Asia?s most vulnerable. The next decade is decisive and coal or nuclear are
expensive and dangerous and have no role to play in the emergency response to
climate change needed. To say that coal can be part of a sustainable energy
future is like saying that cancer can be part of a healthy body?, argued Gerd
Leipold, Greenpeace International Executive Director.

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