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Update: ADB keeps 'polluting coal plant'

April 18, 2007
Security guards disassemble a four-meter replica of a smoke-spewing coal plant after a protest action where Greenpeace Activists assembled the replica of the smoke-spewing coal plant at the main entrance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.

Security guards disassemble a four-meter replica of a smoke-spewing coal plant after a protest action where Greenpeace Activists assembled the replica of the smoke-spewing coal plant at the main entrance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.

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Manila, PHILIPPINES — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today accepted--and kept--a replica of a polluting coal plant which Greenpeace activists constructed in front of the Bank's headquarters in Ortigas Center in Manila this morning.

Greenpeace presented the coal plant to ADB as a gift, symbolizing the Bank's extensive support for coal power projects across Asia. Coal is a major contributor to dangerous climate change which is exacerbating poverty in Asia. 

ADB official Mr. Bart Edes, head of the ADB NGO Center, accepted the coal plant in the Bank's behalf.

 

Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaigner Jasper Inventor said: "Now that they have accepted this coal plant, we ask ADB president Mr. Hirohiko Kuroda to take this replica with him to the ADB Annual Governors' Meeting in Kyoto in May, as a symbol of the Bank's role in abetting climate change in Asia."

"So long as the ADB embraces coal and finances of fossil fuel development in Asia, they cannot claim to be an institution which fights poverty in the region."


As a major development institution working in the world's fastest growing power market, the ADB's reponsibility is not to finance fossil fuel development, but to reject coal and pave the way for the massive uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency across the region."

See related article: Greenpeace activists construct “coal plant” at ADB Headquarters

                                         

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