Institute for Sustainable Innovation

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18.05.2017

Specialists of the group of companies took part in the International Conference "Green Financing for Sustainable Development", which was held in the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia within the framework of "St. Petersburg Initiative"

During four years of "Saint-Petersburg Initiative" implementation, it gained the reputation of an effective international platform for public-private partnership, aimed at discussing and solving urgent environmental issues.

During the sessions of the Conference, the topic of green financing was widely covered in the reports and presentations made by representatives of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, the World Bank, UNEP, UNIDO, OECD, WWF, the German Development Bank, a number of the largest Russian banks, which are the flagships of the development of new environmentally oriented economic models, as well as the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Representatives of Russian departments, regional authorities, business, science, and public organizations also took part in the conference.

During the meeting, experience of green financing was presented, along with various financial instruments for stimulating the introduction of the best available technologies and implementation of projects in the field of waste management in Russia.


                                                      

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