As such, dealing with bilateral tensions between members, includingHowever, there is fundamentally a shared purpose and desire among the sovereign shareholders to make clear infrastructure investments and significantly impact people's lives, said Mr Cross.
“I think all of our thoughts are with the Moroccan people as they walk through and figure out the consequences and clearing the devastation,” he said.Mr Cross noted that when it comes to infrastructure, the due diligence and environmental social framework benchmarks applied to investments are “absolutely crucial” as some of the infrastructure has been around for decades.“Infrastructure is now more expensive.
He acknowledged any confusion that may arise, as the AIIB does a lot of investing in the region in terms of infrastructure, but “that’s the whole point of the institution”. “It's quite reasonable to expect that our employees have their own political beliefs and may well belong to their political parties of their choice,” he said., a legally binding international treaty on climate change adopted by 196 parties at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris back in 2015.