Scale Up Finance for Fish, Forests and Birds to Fight Climate Change
Innovative financing is needed for nature-based solutions, which protect biodiversity and combat climate change.
Anouj Mehta
Country Director, ADB Thailand Resident Mission, Southeast Asia Department
Anouj focuses on Innovative and Green Finance across Southeast Asia. Through SERD innovative finance hub, he manages the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance facility, including the Green Climate Fund approved "Green Recovery Program," one of the first such in Asia. He also led other initiatives and partnerships aimed at developing sustainable and leveraged finance projects. His focus on green finance since 2015 led to the development of ADB's first Catalyzing Green Finance publication and related ADB projects in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Southeast Asia as well as the launch of the recent "Green Recovery Strategies Post COVID-19" knowledge product. Previously Anouj led a pioneering PPP and sub-sovereign initiative in India from both the ADB and the World Bank. Anouj was an investment banker at JP Morgan Chase prior to joining ADB and has expertise in mergers and acquisitions, project and corporate finance, capital markets, sovereign and non-sovereign infrastructure financing.
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How SDG Bonds Can Accelerate a Green Recovery from the Pandemic
We’ll need innovative solutions and new ways of thinking to bridge the financing gap and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic. SDG Accelerator Bonds could be a good start.
Build Green to Help Fend Off the Next Pandemic
Investments in climate-resilient infrastructure should be the centerpiece of the billions of dollars in economic stimulus being used to rebuild Asia’s economies.
Time to Think Green in Financing, Too
Only when green finance is mainstreamed into financing will infrastructure projects be good value for money, as well as good for the environment.
Blending Finance for Bankability
The success of development finance should also be measured by the amount of private finance it can catalyze.