[Excerpt translation from Chinese-language provided by Business and Human Rights Resource Centre]

"Review of AIIB's Fourth Annual Meeting"

The fourth annual meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was held in Luxembourg on 12-13 July 2019. Themed “Cooperation and Connectivity”, the annual meeting aimed at realizing economic and social benefits through better connectivity within and between countries and regions in Europe and Asia…

During the annual meeting, the urgency of addressing climate change and the determination of AIIB to take climate actions had been repeated mentioned. “When facing the huge and long-term challenges brought about by climate change, taking mitigation actions is our only choice,” said Jin Liqun, President of AIIB, at the opening ceremony. “Only multilateralism and international cooperation can ensure that the sustainable development goals are realized by 2030 and address the challenges brought about by climate change,” Pierre Gramegna, Minister of Finance, Luxembourg, highlighted in his keynote speech…

… From the strategic considerations of member states to the opportunities and challenges at the project level, Jin Liqun, President of AIIB and Joachim von Amsberg, Vice President, Policy and Strategy, responded respectively on coal, natural gas, hydropower, energy efficiency and transmission and distribution, solar-wind hybrid and other distributed energy resources…

At the annuall meeting, various stakeholders raised questions at the implementation level regarding the Environmental and Social Framework, which will be revised at the end of the year, and expressed their concerns over the procedures and times nodes of the first revision…

During the discussion session of the annual meeting, Michaela Bergman, Principle Social Development Specialist and experts of gender and infrastructure projects from multilateral banks, engineering construction industry and national governments discussed how to balance the gender difference in the accessibility of infrastructure on the design, development and operation levels.,,