Tokyo, Japan, and Pune, India — The Asian Development Bank Institute is repositioning itself as a climate-focused think tank to align with its parent organization's climate focus and address pressing environmental challenges in the Asia-Pacific region.
This strategic shift comes as the Tokyo-based think tank aims to encourage policymakers and researchers to prioritize climate issues in their work. With a diverse team of researchers from countries such as India, Bhutan, the Philippines, and Japan, ADBI is leveraging its position as a subsidiary of the Asian Development Bank to influence climate policy and research across the region.
Its research priorities have so far been focused on low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region, but for the past year that has been undergoing a change. ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe told Devex that the goal now is to become a “climate think tank” for Asia and the Pacific region.
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Disha Shetty is an independent science journalist based in Pune, India, who writes about public health, environment, and gender. She is the winner of the International Center for Journalists’ 2018 Global Health Reporting Contest Award. Disha has a Masters in Science, Environment, and Medicine Journalism from Columbia University.
