Strengthening Indonesia’s Municipal Bond Market for Sustainable Cities

ADB, with support from ADBI, organized a study visit to Japan for senior Indonesian officials to strengthen knowledge on municipal bond development and sustainable urban finance. The program combined technical discussions with field visits to climate-resilient and disaster prevention project sites in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Nagoya. Participants gained exposure to municipal bond structures, regulatory processes, project pipeline development, credit ratings, investor demand, and risk management. The study visit formed part of ACGF’s GSS+ initiative to help ASEAN member states mobilize green, social, and sustainable finance, with support from the Green Climate Fund and the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Strengthening Thailand's Sustainable Finance Market

Through ACGF and its GSS+ initiative, ADB supported Government Savings Bank (GSB) in developing its Sustainable Finance Framework, helping position it among the first state-owned banks aligned with the Thailand Taxonomy. The framework supported GSB's inaugural THB20 billion sustainability bond, which highlighted growing investor confidence in Thailand's green transition priorities. Since 2020, GSS+ has supported more than 20 sustainable finance issuances in Thailand, raising nearly $5 billion across sovereign, state-owned enterprise, and private sector issuers. 

Image source: Government Savings Bank, Thailand

Coastal and Port Engineering: Building Lines of Defense

ACGF convened the eighth session of the green ports webinar series on Coastal and Port Engineering: Building Lines of Defense, hosted through ADB's Southeast Asia Development Solutions and Development Asia platforms. The session explored how nature-based solutions, hybrid infrastructure, and adaptive engineering approaches supported ports in managing rising seas, stronger storms, and changing coastal conditions, while drawing on global case studies on living shorelines, eco-engineered defenses, and the beneficial reuse of dredged material.

Turning Green Port Priorities into Practical Investment Decisions

At the Asia and the Pacific Transport Forum 2026, ACGF shared insights from its wider green ports knowledge work to help inform the ADB Green Ports Toolkit, which was under development as a resource to help ports assess current conditions, identify priorities, and consider practical next steps. The session featured global port case studies and an interactive exercise using a simulated port scenario, demonstrating how the toolkit could be applied across different operating environments.

Future Fuels, Shore Power, and Energy Transition Readiness

ACGF convened the seventh session of the green ports webinar series on Future Fuels, Shore Power, and Energy Transition Readiness, hosted through ADB's Southeast Asia Development Solutions and Development Asia platforms. The session examined how ports could prepare for cleaner and lower-carbon operations through future fuels, shore power, electrification, renewable energy integration, and clean energy logistics, highlighting emerging practices, technologies, regulations, and practical examples relevant to ports in Southeast Asia. 

Image source: Port of Newcastle, Australia