ADB names special climate envoy to office

MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday announced the appointment of Warren Evans as special senior adviser (Climate Change), office of the president.
Evans will function as a climate envoy and provide broad oversight and guidance for ADB’s climate operations, including optimising climate finance scale and impact, mobilising new and additional technical and financial resources, strengthening ADB’s external climate partnerships and engagement with international climate agreements and initiatives and reinforcing capacity development for climate change operations.
“ADB is in a particularly unique position to support bold, decisive action driven by close partnerships with and tailored to meet the near- and long-term needs of, our developing member countries (DMCs),” Evans said.
“It is critical that we act together and act now, with speed, innovation, and scale, to respond to the central development issue facing our region.”
Evans will drive ADB’s strong commitment to action on climate change.
In the past 12 months, ADB has raised its ambition to deliver climate finance to its DMCs to US$100 billion (about K352 billion) from 2019–2030, adopted a new energy policy that formalised ADB’s practice of not financing new coal-fired power and heating plants, and committed to aligning its operations with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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