Ghana to host Third Green Financing for Sustainable Development Conference
加纳主办第三届可持续发展绿色融资会议
by ITC News 由ITC新闻
(Geneva-Nairobi-Accra) – The International Trade Centre (ITC), the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) and the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) have announced that the Third Green Financing for Sustainable Development Conference will be held in Accra, Ghana, at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel on 21 November 2017.
（日内瓦 - 内罗毕 - 阿克拉） - 国际贸易中心（ITC），非洲担保基金（AGF）和北欧发展基金（NDF）宣布，第三次可持续发展绿色融资会议将在加纳的阿克拉举行，于2017年11月21日在MövenpickAmbassador Hotel酒店举行。
The conference will be followed by a training workshop for selected staff from selected financial institutions on how to lever green finance and the AGF Green Guarantee Facility. The training workshop for financial institutions is by invitation only and will take place on 23-25 November at the Best Western Plus Accra Beach Hotel.
The conference and consecutive training workshops aim to expand access to climate-focused finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa and are in line with the Government of Ghana’s efforts to green the country’s economy.
这次会议和连续培训讲习班旨在扩大非洲中小企业获得以气候为重点的资金的机会，并符合加纳政府为绿色经济所作的努力。
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The conference will provide an opportunity to review the current status of green finance in Ghana and the country’s efforts to green its economy. Ministers and representatives from the Ghanaian public sector will share their experience and lessons learnt from implementing the ‘Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda II’, and the ‘National Climate Change Policy’. Participants from other countries will explore the perspectives of regulators and finance providers and the changes required to spur the development of new products and services.
这次会议将为审查加纳绿色金融的现状以及该国绿色经济的努力提供机会。加纳公共部门的部长和代表将分享他们执行“加纳共同增长和发展议程”和“国家气候变化政策”的经验和教训。来自其他国家的与会者将探讨监管机构和融资提供商的观点，以及促进新产品和服务发展所需的变革。
This conference and the workshops are part of a partnership between ITC, AGF and NDF to promote sustainable finance in Africa in four pilot countries. In addition to this third event in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire will host a similar event for francophone countries in the first quarter of 2018. The first event was organised in Zambia in March 2017, and another was held in Kenya in June 2017.
这次会议和研讨会是ITC，AGF和NDF合作的一部分，以促进四个试点国家在非洲的可持续金融。除加纳的第三次活动外，科特迪瓦还将在2018年第一季度为法语国家举办类似的活动。第一场活动于2017年3月在赞比亚举办，另一场活动于2017年6月在肯尼亚举行。
About the African Guarantee Fund
关于非洲保证基金
Officially launched on 1 June 2012, the African Guarantee Fund is a pan-African non-bank financial institution owned by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). AGF’s primary mandate is to assist financial institutions in Africa to scale up their SME financing through the provision of partial loan guarantees and capacity development assistance.
非洲担保基金于2012年6月1日正式启动，是由非洲开发银行（AfDB），丹麦国际开发署（DANIDA）和西班牙国际开发合作署（AECID）所有的泛非非银行金融机构。 。 AGF的主要任务是协助非洲的金融机构通过提供部分贷款担保和能力发展援助来扩大他们的中小企业融资。
About the Nordic Development Fund
关于北欧发展基金
Established by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden in 1989, NDF is a joint Nordic finance institution focusing exclusively on climate change and development in low income countries. It supports public and private sector led climate finance operations across Africa, Asia and Latin America and became an AGF shareholder in 2016 with the launch of the green guarantee facility.
NDF于1989年由丹麦，芬兰，冰岛，挪威和瑞典成立，是一个专门从事低收入国家气候变化和发展的北欧金融机构。它支持非洲，亚洲和拉丁美洲的公共和私营部门主导的气候融资业务，并于2016年成为AGF股东，推出了绿色担保机构。
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