2017年CRI China plays a key role in promoting green finance globally: economists

China plays a key role in promoting green finance globally: economists¹

An international seminar on green finance has been held in Beijing, with representatives highlighting China's key role in promoting green finance both domestically and globally.

Discussions concerning methods to promote green finance, as well as some specific tools and products in this field, have been made during the event organized by the Research Center for Climate and Energy Finance.

UN Assistant Secretary-General Elliott Harris explained some of the main characters concerning the development of green finance currently.

"First, green finance itself as a theme has in fact developed quite dramatically over the past few years, and now we are at a different stage in this process, the 2nd key point is that notwithstanding on the progress we've made, it's imperative² that we speed up our progress, and that we achieve true scale in the transformations³ in finance and business that are already underway," said Harris.

He added that green finance could also be a big help in achieving results regarding sustainable development.

Yin Yong, vice⁴ governor of China's central bank, said China has been playing an important part in boosting the globalization of green finance.

"China has been devoting great efforts to promoting international cooperation on green finance. During its G20 presidency⁵ last year, we initiated⁶ the topic of green finance and launched the G20 green finance study group co-chaired by the People's Bank of China and the Bank of England," said Yin.

Another highlight of the seminar is how to enhance green investment while promoting the Belt and Road Initiative.

Sherry Madera, Special Adviser⁷ for Asia from the City of London, said green finance has already been recognized as important to Belt and Road infrastructure⁸ projects.

"I was here (in Beijing) during the Belt and Road forum⁹ in May, when President Xi Jinping made a very comprehensive speech about his vision about the Belt and Road, and the reference in those projects to be in green was throughout the speech, and I think that all of the other participants in that forum also underscore how important it was, that the project didn't just go ahead, that they actually went ahead in a sustainable way, and the impact in terms of the environment was minimized," said Madera.

She added that green finance has become a major highlight in terms of bilateral¹⁰ cooperation between China and the UK.

"Green finance I think is one of the great examples of the UK and China working together to bring this topic to the world stage together, so the G20 working group on green finance was new during China's presidency last year, and it will continue to maintain (its role) during this year and next year, and that's something down to the relationship between UK and China, so I think that green finance is a really good example of how that diplomatic ties continued," said Madera.

1 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 imperative   

n.命令，需要；规则；祈使语气；adj.强制的；紧急的

参考例句：

• He always speaks in an imperative tone of voice.他老是用命令的口吻讲话。
• The events of the past few days make it imperative for her to act.过去这几天发生的事迫使她不得不立即行动。

3 transformations   

n.变化( transformation的名词复数 )；转换；转换；变换

参考例句：

• Energy transformations go on constantly, all about us. 在我们周围，能量始终在不停地转换着。 来自辞典例句
• On the average, such transformations balance out. 平均起来，这种转化可以互相抵消。 来自辞典例句

4 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

5 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

6 initiated   

n. 创始人 adj. 新加入的 vt. 开始，创始，启蒙，介绍加入

参考例句：

• He has not yet been thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of computers. 他对计算机的奥秘尚未入门。
• The artist initiated the girl into the art world in France. 这个艺术家介绍这个女孩加入巴黎艺术界。

7 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

8 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

9 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

10 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。