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Southeast Asia
Green Finance Hub

The Green Finance Hub provides crosscutting support to ADB’s developing member countries in Southeast Asia to accelerate green investments and advance innovative financing solutions in response to the region's climate, energy, and financing needs.

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Who We Are

ADB launched the Green Finance Hub (GFH) in 2018 (piloted as the Innovation Hub until 2022) to foster green and innovative finance in Southeast Asia. The GFH supports project concept development and pipeline generation, innovative finance deployment and demonstrations, and country climate investment planning. It manages all trust funds and technical assistance related to the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility (ACGF).

What We Do

Addressing the needs of ADB’s developing member countries, the GFH builds green and innovative financing models, mechanisms, and capacities targeting the development of a scalable pipeline of green and bankable infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia. It provides end-to-end support to country and sector teams across five activity pillars:

  • Concept and Project Development. Develop innovative finance ideas and concepts for ADB project pipelines.
  • Knowledge and Capacity Building. Promote thought leadership and capacity-building initiatives on green and innovative finance.
  • Country Climate Advisory. Support country teams in developing climate assessments and investment plans.
  • Global Partnerships. Foster collaboration and drive synergies with development partners.
  • Green Funds Management. Accelerate green infrastructure in ASEAN through trust funds and technical assistance associated with the ACGF.

Financing and Knowledge Partners

The GFH manages the ACGF, which is owned by ASEAN governments and ADB. These are the partners we work with through the ACGF:

Special Initiatives

The Green, Social, Sustainable, and Other Labeled (GSS+) Bonds Initiative for Southeast Asia aims to deepen and accelerate the development of sustainable capital markets in the region.

The Blue Southeast Asia (SEA) Finance Hub aims to build a $300-million pipeline of bankable projects by 2024 to help Southeast Asian countries improve the sustainability of the region’s oceans and marine ecosystems.

The ACGF Innovative Finance Clinics, developed by the Southeast Asia Green Finance Hub in close collaboration with other ADB departments, ACGF partners, and ASEAN governments, bring together government officials, experts, financiers, and other stakeholders to identify and enhance capacity for bankable project opportunities.

Projects

The Davao Public Transport Modernization Project is ADB’s largest road-based public transport project in the Philippines.
Philippines: Davao Public Transport Modernization Project
The Davao Public Transport Modernization Project was approved for financing by ADB in June 2023 as the first project in the Philippines to deploy an electric bus fleet at scale.
The project will benefit 230 agricultural cooperatives (about 27,000 households) and about 50 agribusinesses in the project areas. Photo credit: ADB.
Cambodia: Agricultural Value Chain Competitiveness and Safety Enhancement Project
The project will strengthen value chains of competitive agricultural products (cassava, mangoes, cashew nuts, vegetables, and native chicken) in selected provinces.
The project seeks to increase and intensify actions to transform key sectors toward a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy. Photo credit: ADB.
Philippines: Climate Change Action Program (Subprogram 1)
The project seeks to increase and intensify actions to transform key sectors toward a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy.
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Publications

Green and Resilient Buildings in ASEAN Cities clinic cover.
Green and Resilient Buildings in ASEAN Cities
This brief provides highlights from an ADB clinic on designing green and resilient buildings.
E-Mobility for Green Urban Transport cover.
E-Mobility for Green Urban Transport
This brief provides highlights from a clinic on designing e-mobility models for planning, procurement, structuring, and financing.
A Road Map for Scaling Up Private Sector Financing for the Blue Economy in Thailand: Investment Report
A Road Map for Scaling Up Private Sector Financing for the Blue Economy in Thailand: Investment Report
This report considers ways to mobilize and scale up private sector investment in areas such as aquaculture and marine renewable energy to help bolster sustainable blue development.
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Articles

The PENCAS Act is a landmark legislation that institutionalizes the systematic measurement of stock and flows of natural resources and the contributions they provide to society and economy. Photo credit: ADB.
Measure What You Treasure: Advancing Natural Capital Accounting in the Philippines
Putting nature on the Philippine balance sheet paves the way for holistic, evidence-based policymaking and programming.
Between 2018 and 2023, Asia received $18 billion of private investments in plastic circularity, only 10% of total investments, despite the greater magnitude of plastic pollution in this region. Photo credit: ADB.
Global Plastics Treaty: A Turning Point in the Fight Against Plastic Pollution
The proposed agreement seeks to establish a framework that addresses the full life cycle of plastic.
In 2023, the warmest year on record, heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical cyclones intensified across the world, with devastating effects on Southeast Asia and other climate-vulnerable regions. Photo credit: ADB.
As Temperatures Rise, Southeast Asia Needs a Larger Share of Climate Finance Flows
The United Nations has called for a doubling of adaptation finance, which is the priority for countries most affected by climate change.
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