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Episode 15 What is IF-CAP? How ADB is launching a new era in climate finance
2 May 2023
Using a leveraged guarantee mechanism, ADB’s initial ambition of $3 billion in guarantees could create up to $15 billion in much-needed climate investment—the first time any multilateral development bank has adopted a program of this kind.
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Episode 15 - What is IF-CAP? How ADB is launching a new era in climate finance
Using a leveraged guarantee mechanism, ADB’s initial ambition of $3 billion in guarantees could create up to $15 billion in much-needed climate investment—the first time any multilateral development bank has adopted a program of this kind.
Episode 14 - Climate Change and Our Health: How the Climate Crisis Could Make us All Sicker
Aside from changing weather patterns and rising sea levels, the impacts of climate change become all the more magnified when viewed from the lens of public health.
Episode 13 - The Climate Emergency: A Call for Action at COP27
Climate change is the critical issue of our lifetime and the past 12 months have rammed home that fact. In Asia and the Pacific, hundreds of millions of people have been impacted by large-scale flooding, drought, typhoons & cyclones