The Nature-based Solutions Podcast
Sep 24, 2026 · 42 min · 9 segments
Nature restoration has a financing problem, not just an environmental one. In this conversation, ADB climate finance specialist Gerrit Held explains why the future of nature-based solutions may depend…
Gerrit HeldGuest
Murray CollinsHost
I think it's helpful for a public institution like the Asian Development Bank to actually participate in some of
these more innovative communication channels.
Multilateral development banks essentially emerged out of the post-Second World War era and the Bretton Woods Agreement.
World Bank, of course, was established a bit earlier as well and with a particular focus on helping countries here in the Asia-Pacific regions.
with economic development priorities from poverty, nature, water, infrastructure, and et cetera.
Asian development banks' biggest shareholders are Japan, and the United States of America.
So these are jointly the biggest shareholders, but we have an aggregate more than 40.
and many subsidiaries, and there are many multilateral development institutions out there that kind of help to drive sort of this multilateralism agenda forward.
And I think in today's world and time where sort of trust is increasingly a big issue, I mean, that's essentially exactly what we try to tackle by actually collaborating with each other.
So that's why we are different than a bilateral development institution that primarily would have certain vested interests, of course, to drive maybe import and export financing and development, you know, German Development Bank or French Development Bank.
We are a multilateral institution, so we primarily really serve our members in the region.
And on our board of governors, we have representatives from each and every member country that we are serving here in the region.
the Pacific Islands all the way to Turkey, which is now our recent member country.
I think it's helpful for a public institution like the Asian Development Bank to actually participate in some of
these more innovative communication channels.
Multilateral development banks essentially emerged out of the post-Second World War era and the Bretton Woods Agreement.
World Bank, of course, was established a bit earlier as well and with a particular focus on helping countries here in the Asia-Pacific regions.
with economic development priorities from poverty, nature, water, infrastructure, and et cetera.
Asian development banks' biggest shareholders are Japan, and the United States of America.
So these are jointly the biggest shareholders, but we have an aggregate more than 40.
and many subsidiaries, and there are many multilateral development institutions out there that kind of help to drive sort of this multilateralism agenda forward.
And I think in today's world and time where sort of trust is increasingly a big issue, I mean, that's essentially exactly what we try to tackle by actually collaborating with each other.
So that's why we are different than a bilateral development institution that primarily would have certain vested interests, of course, to drive maybe import and export financing and development, you know, German Development Bank or French Development Bank.
We are a multilateral institution, so we primarily really serve our members in the region.
And on our board of governors, we have representatives from each and every member country that we are serving here in the region.
the Pacific Islands all the way to Turkey, which is now our recent member country.
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