Climate advocates stage a creative protest dubbed “A Race Behind 1.5!” in front of the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Mandaluyong City on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Asian Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), the action features a live

ATM at the #acef2025 Asian Development Bank: "Fire side chat" on Strengthening #CriticalMinerals to Manufacturing Value Chains for Sustainability & Resilience include speakers from Barrick-owned Reko Diq Mining Company, w/c will operate a copper mine in conflict-affected Balochistan, Pakistan.

A new Tropical Forest Forever Facility, proposed by Brazil, is expected to launch later this year at #COP30. But can the #TFFF really protect forests & the rights of those who call them home? 40+ organisations have sent these concerns & recommendations 👉rainforestfoundationuk.org/a-new-multi-bi…

🌿 If you missed out on this session from the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, find out what stakeholders had to say about stopping accountability from slipping through the cracks of the Full Mutual Reliance Framework signed by The World Bank and ADB. accountability.worldbank.org/en/news/2025/M…

World Bank Group guarantees — not as "green" as they seem?⚠️ New research shows how MIGA guarantees are boosting big banks’ ability to invest in fossil fuels, including 🇲🇿 🇨🇦🇻🇳 LNG in Mozambique, Canada, Vietnam 🇦🇷 Oil & gas in Argentina bit.ly/MIGA25 #FfD4People

Africa has 60% of the world's best solar potential, but receives just 2% of global renewable energy investment. Meanwhile, African countries spent $100 billion on #debt servicing in 2022—twice what they spent on health or education combined. Here's why this matters 👇

#News Lens: as World Bank, IMF & other MDBs and governments meet in Seville for #FFD4Sevilla, Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky urges them to heed people's calls for reform: cancel the debt, redistribute the wealth and fund the just transition. linkedin.com/pulse/seizing-…

Currently military spending is 8 times more than aid, but with NATO increases and cuts to aid this will rise to 24 times.

Will you stand with refugees & asylum seekers in Oxfordshire? There's still time to support our Refugee Week appeal! £20 = welcome pack for a mother & baby🧸 £100 = emergency accommodation for someone in crisis 🛏️ £250 = 2 months' food support🥫 Thank you! asylum-welcome.org/refugeeweek202…

🗞️ NEWS: Experts in rights and public accountability have hit out at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for failing to meet international standards in its latest accountability policy. Read: re-course.org/newsupdates/ai… #AIIBAccountabilityNow Reactions 🧵

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This is what #Solidarity looks like

Why is a small group of youth in #Thailand leaving the big city and going back to their village in the mountains of Mae Chaem District? 🍃 Find out how the Baan Mae Ning Nai youth are integrating modern concepts and local wisdom: transformativepathways.net/baan-mae-ning-… #TransformativePathways

In this blog post, I analysed how AIIB 's support for infrastructure debt securities are endangering the climate. The bank must reconsider these investments, plug holes for indirect support to harmful project, and redirect support to real sustainable renewables.

🚨 Tomorrow the Asian Development Bank will vote on #RekoDiq, a destructive mining project in #Balochistan, a conflict-ridden region in #Pakistan. A group of 36 CSOs is sounding the alarm & calling on ADB not to fund the project, join us! Full letter here 👉 tinyurl.com/38k4ft27

“The project is destroying our sacred forests, mountain & nature. But no one ever asked us whether we want this cable car” NEWS🚨 Indigenous people in Nepal file complaint over IFC advice to IME Group cable car on sacred Mukkumlung mountain Read: re-course.org/newsupdates/ca…

The complaint alleges the project breached IFC safeguards on Indigenous rights, cultural heritage and biodiversity. “We have challenged this project in the Supreme Court on the grounds of violations of our lands, territories and resources." Shankar Limbu, LAHURNIP

Mukkumlung mountain is home to red panda & snow leopards – yet no impact analysis was carried out and 10k trees have been felled. “In advising IME Group, the IFC has added insult to injury, furthering this injustice against the Limbu nation.” Prabindra Shakya AIPNEE

IFC should use its influence with IME Group to stop the violence against the Limbu people. “The IFC must improve how it engages with Indigenous Peoples. It can start by learning from experiences like this where things have gone badly wrong” Kate Geary, Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky