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Diana Connett

Diana Connett

Energy Specialist, Southeast Asia Department

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Diana Connett is the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) focal for energy operations in the Philippines. She co-led ADB’s first climate change policy-based loan for the Philippines and ADB’s first gender-mainstreamed energy sector results-based lending program. She has worked in energy and climate change across Southeast Asia for the past 7 years. Previously, she worked in corporate and operational management in a private sector energy company with international operations, as well as in civil society organizations and international institutions. She holds two master's degrees from Yale University in environmental management and international and development economics.

The Philippines has been one of the hardest hit countries by climate change and needs substantial financing to address the issue. Photo credit: ADB.
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Five Ways to Fund the Philippines’ Fight against Climate Change

Financing climate action was a key topic at COP27. For the Philippines, on the front lines of the global climate crisis, it is a make-or-break question.