Guidelines for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions of ADB Projects

Guidelines for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions of ADB Projects
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9292577808

Developing Asia has the world's fastest-growing rate of greenhouse gas emissions, with the leading driver being emissions from power generation. Reducing these emissions is paramount to ensuring a sustainable future while responding to the threat of climate change. This publication provides Asian Development Bank energy sector staff, consultants, and other interested readers with an understanding of key concepts and principles for estimating and reporting on the climate change impacts of energy projects. These guidelines provide more detail on estimating the emissions reductions attributable to energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.

Guidelines for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Asian Development Bank Projects

Guidelines for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Asian Development Bank Projects
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2017-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789292577797

Developing Asia has the world's fastest-growing rate of greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from power generation. This publication provides additional guidance for ADB clean energy projects. Developing Asia has the world's fastest-growing rate of greenhouse gas emissions, with the leading driver being emissions from power generation. Reducing these emissions is paramount to ensuring a sustainable future while responding to the threat of climate change. This publication provides Asian Development Bank energy sector staff, consultants, and other interested readers with an understanding of key concepts and principles for estimating and reporting on the climate change impacts of energy projects. These guidelines provide more detail on estimating the emissions reductions attributable to energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.

Future Carbon Fund

Future Carbon Fund
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292610635

Asia and the Pacific is home to more than 60% of the world's population and 62% of the global economic output. But the region still faces enormous development challenges and with economic growth, it has become a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This has exposed Asia and the Pacific to the impacts of climate change, threatening to undo the development gains from economic prosperity over the past decades. This report reflects how Clean Development Mechanism projects supported by the Future Carbon Fund not only reduce GHG emissions but deliver social, environmental, and economic co-benefits contributing to sustainable development in the region. This report also presents qualitative and quantitative analysis of these co-benefits.

Climate-Related Financial Disclosures 2021

Climate-Related Financial Disclosures 2021
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292697498

ADB became a Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) supporter in November 2021 and this report represents ADB’s first climate-related financial disclosures under the TCFD framework. This publication provides an overview of ADB’s progress in implementing recommendations in the four thematic areas identified by the TCFD framework: governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. It also presents proposed future actions to integrate climate-related risks and opportunities into the core of ADB’s business strategy and decisions.

ADB's Support for the Sustainable Development Goals

ADB's Support for the Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292627384

This publication explains the approach of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to integrate the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their associated targets into its strategies, programs, and financing under Strategy 2030. The publication draws on project examples to highlight how ADB operations contribute to clusters of interconnected SDGs related to people, planet, prosperity, and sustainable infrastructure. It also details ADB’s efforts to help developing member countries mobilize the finance and knowledge necessary to achieve the SDGs.

Southeast Asia and the Economics of Global Climate Stabilization

Southeast Asia and the Economics of Global Climate Stabilization
Author: David A. Raitzer
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9292573055

Climate change is a global concern of special relevance to Southeast Asia, a region that is both vulnerable to the effects of climate change and a rapidly increasing emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This study focuses on five countries of Southeast Asia that collectively account for 90% of regional GHG emissions in recent years---Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It applies two global dynamic economy–energy–environment models under an array of scenarios that reflect potential regimes for regulating global GHG emissions through 2050. The modeling identifies the potential economic costs of climate inaction for the region, how the countries can most efficiently achieve GHG emission mitigation, and the consequences of mitigation, both in terms of benefits and costs. Drawing on the modeling results, the study analyzes climate-related policies and identifies how further action can be taken to ensure low-carbon growth.

Asian Development Bank Sustainability Report 2018

Asian Development Bank Sustainability Report 2018
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292611755

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been issuing its Sustainability Report since 2007. The Sustainability Report allows stakeholders to assess ADB's operational and organizational sustainability performance, providing them with a single point of reference to understand ADB's commitment to sustainable development. For 2018, this biennial Sustainability Report highlights the integration of sustainability into ADB's operations and organizational activities during 2016–2017. A separate detailed Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Content Index sets out ADB's management approaches to material topics and responses to general and specific disclosures in the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards. The Sustainability Report and detailed GRI Content Index are prepared in accordance with the core option of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards and are available online at www.adb.org/documents/asian-development-bank-sustainability-report-2018.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification Manual for Clean Development Mechanism Projects

Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification Manual for Clean Development Mechanism Projects
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292574000

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon inance. With nearly 7,700 projects and 290 Program of Activities registered by the CDM Executive Board, the CDM allows GHG emission reduction projects in developing countries to generate Certiied Emission Reductions which can be used to ofset mandatory or voluntary emission reduction targets. It however requires a robust monitoring, reporting, and veriication (MRV) to ensure social and environmental integrity of such projects and the emissions reductions thereof. This MRV manual is intended to assist CDM project developers in understanding and managing the MRV requirements and process of their CDM projects in a simple step-by-step manner with the help of real examples and practical tips. While this MRV manual has been developed primarily to assist CDM project developers, it also aspires to be of help for projects participating in other existing and emerging market mechanisms. These may include bilateral mechanisms; voluntary carbon markets; regional, national, and subnational carbon markets; and any of the cooperative approaches and new market mechanism for the post-2020 carbon markets consequent to the Paris Agreement adopted at COP21 in December 2015. As carbon markets in the region evolve beyond CDM, there is a strong need to maintain and further build institutional capacities to ensure growth and enhanced efectivity of carbon markets---and this MRV manual is an efort in that direction.

Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage in Southeast Asia

Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage in Southeast Asia
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9292542915

This report was produced under the Technical Assistance Grant: Determining the Potential for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Southeast Asia (TA 7575-REG), and is focused on an assessment of the CCS potential in Thailand, Viet Nam, and specific regions of Indonesia (South Sumatra) and the Philippines (Calabarzon). It contains inventories of carbon dioxide emission sources, estimates of overall storage potential, likely source-sink match options for potential CCS projects, and an analysis of existing policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks with a view toward supporting future CCS operations. The report also presents a comparative financial analysis of candidate CCS projects, highlights possible incentive schemes for financing CCS, and provides an actionable road map for pilot, demonstration, and commercial CCS projects.

Economic Analysis of Climate-Proofing Investment Projects

Economic Analysis of Climate-Proofing Investment Projects
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9292570781

Climate change represents an increasing threat to the continued development of the people, preservation of ecosystems, and economic growth of Asia and the Pacific. Mainstreaming climate risk management in all aspects of development is thus key to an effective transition to climate-resilient development pathways. ADB's climate risk management framework aims to reduce risks resulting from climate change to investment projects in Asia and the Pacific. A key step in this framework is the technical and economic valuation of climate-proofing measures. This report describes the conduct of the cost-benefit analysis of climate proofing investment projects. An important message is that the presence of uncertainty about climate change does not invalidate the conduct of the economic analysis of investment projects, nor does it require a new type of economic analysis. However, the presence of uncertainty does require a different type of decision-making process in which technical and economic expertise combine to present decision makers with the best possible information on the economic efficiency of alternative designs of investment projects.