UNEP's Finance Initiatives Roundtable Meeting is taking place at a critical time in the process to set the agenda for this landmark earth summit. Furthermore, with the plan to focus discussions on ‘Globalisation and Sustainable Development', the UNEP Finance Initiatives are tackling a subject that will sit at the very heart of the 2002 deliberations - Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer, Spokesman of the Group Board of Deutsche Bank AG The 2000 Annual UNEP Finance Initiatives Roundtable:Globalization and Sustainable Development - Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Sector brought together innovative perspectives on finance and sustainable development from over 250 senior representatives in the financial services, business, government, non-government and international government sectors.
This thirty-two page meeting report provides a readable and highly valuable summary of these leading-edge discussions on finance and sustainable development. Topics Discussed include: the role of micro-finance in poverty alleviation environmental management and reporting innovative financing of technologies for renewable energy environmental performance indicators A must have for any person interested in understanding the current state of affairs between the finance and sustainable development interface, the Frankfurt report also outlines clear messages from the various stakeholders that emerged during the rigorous two day discussion. |
