The presentation highlighted the Urban Resilience Trust Fund’s support for clean air as a core pillar of climate resilience, showcasing how integrated urban planning, capacity building, and innovative investments strengthened air quality, public health, and low-carbon development across eligible countries in Asia and the Pacific.

The presentation highlighted the state of global air quality funding, emphasizing the health, climate, and economic benefits of investing in clean air. It underscored current funding gaps, regional and sectoral trends, and offered key recommendations for international development funders to scale up and better target air quality investments.

The presentation outlined ADB’s support for air quality management in Asia, highlighting the Asia Clean Blue Skies Program, key technical assistance initiatives, and investments that strengthened policies, capacity, and clean air solutions across developing member countries.

The presentation highlighted the large global financing gap for nature and showed how WWF and ADB had worked to mobilize funding for conservation. It outlined WWF’s strategy to finance green projects and align financial systems with global climate and nature goals, using examples from Borneo to demonstrate practical applications. It concluded that scaling nature investments required coordinated policies, stronger financial mechanisms, and mainstreaming natural capital in existing financial instruments.

The presentation highlighted how global Nature-based Solutions (NbS) had improved water security, climate resilience, and ecosystem management. It summarized key benefits, shared successful case studies, and emphasized that scaling NbS required strong governance, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable funding.

The presentation explained how ADB tracks its environment and nature portfolio under the new Corporate Results Framework. It outlined the Strategy 2030 midterm priorities, the updated outcome-oriented indicators, and the tools and resources used for reporting environment-related results. The slides also highlighted ADB’s current environment-tagged portfolio, upcoming revisions to nature finance tracking standards, and key steps toward preparing the 2026 Sustainability Report.

The presentation provided an overview of the Environment Action Plan (2024–2030), outlining its framework, key pillars, and approach to strengthening environmental sustainability across ADB operations. It summarized upstream, midstream, and downstream actions, highlighted progress in EAP implementation, and concluded with upcoming milestones and next steps.