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The Asian Destruction Bank?

Feature story | May 7, 2007 at 6:00

When one of Asia’s leading institutions says it’s serious about funding the solutions to climate change that makes us happy. But when we discover that this commitment goes no further than a glossy brochure, we can't let that pass.

Greenpeace constructs a “coal plant” at ADB Headquarters

Feature story | April 18, 2007 at 6:00

Greenpeace activists today constructed a four-meter replica of a (smoke-spewing) coal plant at the main entrance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.

ADB and Global Warming

Blog entry by Chuck Baclagon | April 30, 2009

This month, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) issued the 250-page report, "The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review" which focuses on the impact on the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, and is...

Greenpeace Activists assemble a four

Image | April 18, 2007 at 6:00

Greenpeace Activists assemble a four-meter replica of a smoke-spewing coal plant at the main entrance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.

Bart Edes (r) and Richard Jacobson (l)

Image | April 18, 2007 at 6:00

Bart Edes (r) and Richard Jacobson (l), both officials of the ADB (l) cross the street as Greenpeace Activists assemble a four-meter replica of a smoke-spewing coal plant at the main entrance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in...

'Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner that

Image | May 4, 2006 at 23:00

'Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner that says 'There are only two mistakes you can make on the road to fighting climate change: one is not starting, and the other is not going all the way.' The banner was unfurled over the base of the iconic,...

Village leaders from three communities devastated

Image | May 3, 2006 at 6:00

Village leaders from three communities devastated by ADB-financed coal plants presented the Bank President with a bowl of coal, in a symbolic indictment of the ADB's continued funding of climate change through dirty coal power plants.

Maliwan Nakwirot

Image | May 4, 2007 at 20:03

Maliwan Nakwirot, leader of Mae Moh Village in Thailand, where scores died from pollution due to the 2,400 MW Mae Moh coal-fired power plant, delivers to ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda death certificates of community members who died because of...

Maliwan Nakwirot

Image | May 4, 2007 at 19:58

Maliwan Nakwirot, leader of Mae Moh Village in Thailand, where scores died from pollution due to the 2,400 MW Mae Moh coal-fired power plant, delivers to ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda death certificates of community members who died because of...

Greenpeace Activists assemble a four

Image | April 18, 2007 at 6:00

Greenpeace Activists assemble a four-meter replica of a smoke-spewing coal plant at the main entrance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.

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