The Forum network demands stronger safeguard standards that genuinely prioritize people and the planet.
Join us in challenging ADB’s practices at the 57th Annual Meeting to ensure a sustainable future for all. #ADBAnnualMeeting #ChallengeADB #SafeguardingPeopleAndPlanet
The 57th ADB Annual Meeting is underway, and the Forum network is raising concerns about the Bank’s proposed safeguards policy. Unfortunately, the draft falls short, lacking adequate due diligence and protection for vulnerable groups.
The ADB must prioritize the needs of those most at risk. 🛡️💔 #ADBAnnualMeeting #ADBAnnualMeeting #SafeguardPolicy #ProtectVulnerableGroups
In its 57th year of operation, the Forum network is urging the ADB to prioritize the voices and well-being of communities and defenders in its agenda.
🌏 ADB’s dedication to community safety and defender protection is non-negotiable!
🚫 ADB’s disregard for Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) undermines communities’ rights to self-determination.
It’s time to hold ADB accountable for prioritizing profit over people and respecting the voices of those affected by its projects. 💼💔🗣️#ADBAnnualMeeting #PrioritizePeopleOverProfit
🏛️ Cultural heritage is more than just buildings—it’s the soul of our communities.
ADB’s new safeguard policy must ensure the protection of both tangible and intangible cultural treasures from harm caused by its projects. #ADBAnnualMeeting #CulturalHeritage
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We stand with community, labor, and climate rights defenders rejecting ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism model proposed in #Indonesia, #Philippines and beyond. 🌍✊ #NoToADBETM
Evidence of destruction wreaked by hydropower projects ADB has financed — on communities and ecosystems – and negative impacts on climate resilience is clear – incl. in #Georgia, #Laos, #India and #Nepal.
#StopHydropowerImpacts #ADBAnnualMeeting
The legacy of ADB’s support for mining ventures has left a trail of destruction on people’s health, lives, and environmental well-being, including at the site of a toxic tailings dam burst in the #Philippines. ☠️😢
Mining should be placed on ADB’s prohibited investment activities list!
ADB’s support for fossil gas continues to flow – directly to gas power projects and also through more opaque channels of intermediaries, trade financing, and technical assistance. 💨⛽ #FossilFuelFree #StopFossilGas #ClimateAction
#ADBAnnualMeeting
As we engage in the halls of the ADB’s 2024 Annual Meeting, we continue to assert that ‘just transitions’ will never be possible by tinkering at the edges of current business-as-usual models. ✊🌍
We seek inclusive, democratic processes that put collective rights, an economy of care, and the planetary commons at the center, holding all actors – including. ADB – accountable for redress, remedy, and reparations wherever culpable for inflicting harms, losses, and damages. #JustTransitions #Accountability #ClimateJustice #ADBAnnualMeeting
It is a critical tool for all who are involved in urging the ADB, AIIB, World Bank and other financiers to stop the build out of hydropower projects. Among other main takeaways, the briefing puts forward in clear, concise terms the need for a moratorium on new dams as a key aspect in respecting the rights of communities; urges banks and other financiers to unequivocally respect the free, prior, informed consent of impacted local and Indigenous Peoples’ communities across all transactions and asserts that when banks and financiers upgrade existing hydropower projects, such investments should not perpetuate substantial environmental and social damage, extend the life of ill-conceived dams or result in any expansion of negative impacts from the facility.
For more information, you can download the paper here.
