Understanding and Responding to Climate Change in Developing Asia

Abstract:

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to helping its developing member countries (DMCs) finance their own sustainable development at this critical moment for both Asia and the Pacific, and for the global climate. Guided by ADB's long-term development framework, Strategy 2020 (ADB 2008), ADB will focus on three complementary strategic agendas: inclusive growth; environmentally sustainable growth, including climate change; and regional integration. This document summarizes the priorities for ADB's responses to climate change based on regional analysis and ADB's comparative advantage for developing policy, institutional, and operational responses to climate change.