http://bicusa.org/en/Issue.16.aspx The latest news on Environmental Policy at the ADB from the Bank Information Center 10 http://www.infodev.org/images/infodev.gif http://bicusa.org/en/Issue.16.aspx Network charges that poor quality of 2nd draft implies that President Kuroda has been unable to convince the ADB bureaucracy to uphold and support his vision of the ADB as the leading regional development organization on poverty alleviation and climate change. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.10972.aspx Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:44:36 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.10972.aspx Audio from the panel discussion on the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Safeguard Policy Update at the ADB's 2008 Annual Meeting is now available online. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3845.aspx Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:07:12 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3845.aspx In a recent sign-on statement, multiple civil society organizations rejected the Asian Development Bank's new strategy, arguing that it will push for more private sector involvement in development and lead to more harmful impacts on services, livelihoods, food security and the environment. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3753.aspx Tue, 06 May 2008 14:37:09 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3753.aspx Civil society organizations warn that Asia's communities and environment will continue to be at risk if the Asian Development Bank (ADB) fails to improve its existing safeguard policies that are currently being revised. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3751.aspx Tue, 06 May 2008 13:48:12 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3751.aspx This update provides the most recent information regarding the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank held in Madrid, Spain from May 3-6. It also includes the activities of civil society organizations taking place during the meeting. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3740.aspx Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:45:11 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3740.aspx The Director of the Asian Development Bank’s Private Sector Operations Department, Robert Bestani, notified the Bank’s Board of Directors last week that it will take the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh out of the Bank’s funding pipeline. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3720.aspx Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:29:16 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3720.aspx As part of its North America leg of consultations, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held a half day event in Washington, DC on April 1 to seek feedback on its draft Safeguard Policy Statement. Several NGOs declined attendance in support of the position taken by the NGO Forum on ADB which calls for a "halt" in consultations given the weakness of the consultation draft. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3714.aspx Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:36:25 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3714.aspx Representatives of the U.S. Senate judiciary and House financial services committees, urge Hank Paulson, the U.S. Treasury secretary, to demand that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) stick to tougher environmental and social criteria. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3696.aspx Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:36:12 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3696.aspx Directors from several non-governmental organizations in Vietnam have sent a letter to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) stating their refusal to participate in upcoming ADB consultations in Hanoi on March 5-6, 2008. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3682.aspx Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3682.aspx Phulbari resistance groups produce first documentary video. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3647.aspx Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:09:47 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3647.aspx Close to fifty people representing social movements in India and other parts of South Asia delivered a boycott statement to Asian Development Bank officials in New Delhi on January 16th, at the start of the Bank's consultations on its Draft Safeguard Policy Statement. The organised protest consisted of slogans and plackards, one of which read: "End to Lending." http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3644.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:24:50 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3644.aspx Civil society groups from South Asia are planning to boycott the Asian Development Bank's consultation meeting on its safeguards policy update, to be held in New Delhi, India tomorrow. The groups, from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh state that the ADB's consultation draft, released in October 2007, greatly dilutes the Bank's earlier policies on Environment (2002), Involuntary Resettlement (1995) and Indigenous Peoples (1998), and is opposed to indigenous peoples’ rights and subverts environmental considerations. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3643.aspx Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:04:40 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3643.aspx Citing violations of five of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) own policies, non-governmental organizations from around the world have petitioned the ADB to discontinue its pre-appraisal of the Phulbari Coal Project and remove it from the funding pipeline. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3642.aspx Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:04:37 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3642.aspx Working session aims to update the Indonesian civil society organizations and movements on the old and new trends in the governance and operations of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as they relate to Indonesia. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3594.aspx Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3594.aspx The NGO Forum on ADB, on October 24 and 25, raised several issues with the ADB around the review of its Safeguard Policies. The ADB responded by agreeing to change dates of two regional consultations and to provide Vietnamese and Bahasa translations of the Consultation Draft. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3562.aspx Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:04:31 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3562.aspx In a letter to the Asian Development Bank's Environment Division, non-governmental organizations raised substantial concerns about recent developments with the Safeguard Policy Update (SPU) process, calling into question the possibility of genuine participation by civil society organizations. It reminds the ADB to honour its previous commitments about the process of these consultations. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3548.aspx Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:17:16 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3548.aspx Recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to activities of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in Kazakhstan. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3500.aspx Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:24:56 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3500.aspx Recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to activities of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in Azerbaijan. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3499.aspx Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:57:10 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3499.aspx Four members of the team tasked with revising the ADB project "safeguards" have resigned in protest against management's efforts to dilute the bank's policies on environment, resettlement and indigenous people. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3487.aspx Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:08:07 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3487.aspx The Asian Development Bank has completed the consultation process on its draft Energy Strategy. Civil society organizations from throughout the region have called on the ADB to incorporate current international best practices in sector, and at minimum to adopt the principles of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3461.aspx Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:54:54 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3461.aspx Project affected people and civil society organizations highlight problems with current ADB policies aiming to protect the environment and human rights at a BIC and Oxfam Australia-hosted panel. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3356.aspx Thu, 17 May 2007 16:04:07 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3356.aspx The OED’s decision to include Khulna-Jessore Drainage Rehabilitation Project (KJDRP) in its 2007-2009 work-plan constitutes the first victory in the campaign to ensure the approach taken to manage drainage is not repeated in other ADB-funded projects in the region. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3230.aspx Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:37:50 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3230.aspx The consultations were originally scheduled for March 2007. New consultations are tentatively scheduled for the late second quarter of 2007. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3152.aspx Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:22:27 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3152.aspx The consultation, whose date is yet to be determined, will collect the opinions of stakeholders from eight countries. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3122.aspx Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:01:27 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3122.aspx The upcoming consultation aims to collect the opinions of stakeholders in eight countries. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3121.aspx Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:43:56 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3121.aspx Greenpeace is urging the ADB to stop funding projects that induce climate change, some of which they call "the dirtiest technology." http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3054.aspx Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:35:57 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3054.aspx Independent assessment of Safeguard Policies implementation also recommended. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.2241.aspx Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:07:44 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.2241.aspx http://bicusa.org/en/Article.2168.aspx Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:13:21 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.2168.aspx The Environmental Considerations OM section corresponds to the ADB's first ever Environment Policy approved in November 2002 http://bicusa.org/en/Article.1158.aspx Sat, 01 Nov 2003 17:56:26 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.1158.aspx