Roundtable One: Prepping Climate-Resilient Infrastructure and Green Recovery after COVID-19
22 June 2022 • 1:00–2:15 p.m. (in UTC/GMT +8 hours)
Successfully scaling blue, green, and climate finance requires adequate enabling environments, technology, and finance. The panel will discuss how to prepare the ground for this to happen, focusing on the objectives of thereby
- Building sustainable infrastructure in Asia that is resilient to climate change impacts.
- Incentivizing green recovery post-COVID.
- Preparing the ground for long-run financial innovation in Asia to successfully achieve blue, green and climate objectives.
- Creating-long run capacity in countries that sustains this innovation over time.
Tailoring sustainable financial innovation to countries’ unique needs in this respect through prior needs assessments.
Bruno Carrasco
Director General,
Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department
Asian Development Bank
Anna Sophie Herken
Business Division Head
Allianz Asset Management GmbH
Dr. Nasruddin Djoko Surjono
Head of Regional Development Planning Board, Bappeda
Petra Hielkema
Chairperson
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
Dr.Steve Howard
Chief Sustainability Officer
Temasek International