MDBs' & Member States' Climate Legal ObliGations Campaign

Click Here for Drs. Lorenzo and Lin's November 7, 2025 Legal Opinion commissioned by BCA on the Climate Change Obligations of IFC, IBRD, ADB, and their Member States under international law and their failures to meet these obligations. 

Click Here for November 19, 2025 Global Capital Article by Jon Hay detailing the significance of Drs. Lorenzo and Lin's Opinion, and Bank Climate Advocates and CSOs efforts at WBG and ADB to align these MDB's and their member states with the climate change legal obligations in the Opinion

Click here for letter requesting the World Bank Group (WBG) and its member states amend WBG’s suite of climate policies to meet their climate change legal obligations as detailed in the November 7, 2025 independent legal opinion from scholars Dr. Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo and Dr. Jolene Lin. 

Click here for letter requesting Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its member states amend ADB’s suite of climate policies to meet their climate change legal obligations as detailed in the November 7, 2025 independent legal opinion from scholars Dr. Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo and Dr. Jolene Lin. 

Click here for BCA Press Release  on (1) the Scholar's MDB Climate Legal Opinion and (2) BCA's and 21 CSOs requests to World Bank Group (WBG), Asian Development Bank and their member states requesting WBG, ADB, and their member states amend their suite of climate change policies to align with their climate change legal obligations under international law as the Scholars' Opinion Provides. 

Click here for letter detailing that the Scholars' Legal Opinion authoritatively underscores that if each of ADB’s member states and or ADB desire to meet their own climate change legal obligations, amending the Energy Policy (Policy) must be postponed well beyond November 24, or that in the alternative, ADB’s member states should vote against the currently contemplated amendments.