Through funding coal-fired power plants, the Asian Development Bank is helping accelerate climate change. Its destruction of forests makes things worse.
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The ADB is destroying the Mekong’s forests and the planet’s climate
22 DecBangladesh: Phulbari coal mine – “losses beyond compensation”
2 AprA UK company is planning to build a huge coal mine in Bangladesh. The impacts would be devastating. The Asian Development Bank is considering supporting the project anyway.
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Greenwash and How to Encourage it: One World Trust studies what ADB says, not what it does
21 MarOne World Trust’s “Global Accountability Report” looks only at policies and not at what the organisations analysed do in practice.
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Increased poverty, land conflicts and deforestation: The Asian Development Bank’s plantations record
27 FebThe Asian Development Bank’s forestry sector loans have led to increased deforestation and increased poverty. They have exacerbated conflicts over land, replaced villagers’ common lands with monocultures and destroyed local livelihoods. But the Bank appears structurally incapable of learning from its mistakes.
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Subsidies, secrecy and lies. The case of the ADB’s missing forest policy
30 AprSince 2000, the ADB has been working on a new forest policy. It was supposed to be finished in 2002. Five years later, where is it?
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Creating poverty in Laos: The Asian Development Bank and industrial tree plantations
25 AprThe ADB’s involvement in tree plantations in Laos has increased poverty, replaced villagers’ land with monocultures and destroyed livelihoods.
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Laos: Indian and Japanese pulp giants move in
25 MarAssisted by the ADB, Japanese and Indian pulp corporations are taking over thousands of hectares of villagers’ forests, commons and farmlands in Laos.
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Laos: ADB’s eucalyptus plantations increase poverty
28 FebIn a December 2005 report, the ADB’s Operations Evaluations Department confirmed that the ADB’s industrial tree plantations project has increased poverty. Yet only one month after the OED published its report the Bank announced another tree plantations project in Laos.
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Secrets and Lies: The Asian Development Bank’s new forest policy
29 JunThe ADB’s proposed new forest policy is shrouded in secrecy. No surprises there, then.
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The Asian Development Bank’s proposed new forest policy: why should we care?
3 DecPresentation at WRM/WALHI Southeast Asia Regional Meeting on Oil Palm and Pulpwood Plantations.
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Laos: Ongoing problems with the Asian Development Bank’s “successful” Nam Leuk dam
21 JulThe ADB claims that the Nam Leuk dam is a successful project. Recent research in Laos indicates serious ongoing problems for villagers affected by the project.
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Laos: Ecosecurities helps ADB provide carbon subsidies to the pulp industry
25 NovThe Asian Development Bank’s big plans for plantations in Laos might include carbon dumps.
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Banking on the forests: The politics of the ADB’s involvement in Asia’s forests
1 NovPublished in Guerrero, D. (ed.) (2003) A Handbook on the Asian Development Bank: The ADB and its operations in Asia and the Pacific Region. Focus Asien no. 16. Asienhaus, Essen. November 2003.
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ADB’s draft forest policy: The politics of participation
1 OctThe ADB likes to talk about “stakeholders”, “participation” and “consultation”, but the Bank’s review of its forest policy demonstrates that these words have no meaning within the Bank.
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ADB’s plantation projects in Laos
1 OctForests are being cleared to make way for ADB-funded plantations in Laos. Villagers are already seeing the impacts.
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Banking on deforestation: Asian Development Bank support to industrial forestry in Lao PDR
1 JulThe ADB is playing an increasingly important – and destructive – role in Laos, promoting industrial tree plantations at the expense of community forests, swiddens, grazing land and commons.
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Putting profits before people
28 MayA critique of the ADB’s June 2002 draft forest policy: ‘Forests for all and forever’. Sent to ADB President Tadao Chino, by Friends of the Earth International.
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ADB’s draft forest policy: Putting profits before people
25 MayADB’s June 2002 draft forest policy is fundamentally flawed.
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Laos: Secrets, lies and tree plantations
25 MarThe Asian Development Bank’s plantation plans in Laos are taking place almost completely in secret.
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Laos: Asian Development Bank to support proposed Nam Theun 2 dam
24 MarThe Asian Development Bank is considering financing the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam. Although the project may never be built, it has already had serious impacts on people and forests in Laos.
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Laos: Freedom of information, industrial tree plantations and the ADB
26 NovThe Asian Development Bank is promoting plantations in Laos, through its US$11.2 million “Industrial Tree Plantation Project”.
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Asian Development Bank subsidising deforestation in Laos
24 FebThe Asian Development Bank is replacing forests with monoculture tree plantations.
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Laos: Subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector
25 NovA conflict of interest? The Burapha Group profits from the ADB-funded advice that Burapha’s consultants give to the Lao government.
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Se Kong-Se San and Nam Theun: Too many dam studies
20 NovConsultants for the Asian Development Bank are to recommend at least six dams for further study. Local communities are excluded from the process.
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