{"id":5873,"date":"2019-10-11T17:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"global-network-of-financial-centers-plan-huge-growth-in-sustainable-finance-and-launches-regional-programme-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/11\/global-network-of-financial-centers-plan-huge-growth-in-sustainable-finance-and-launches-regional-programme-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Network Of Financial Centers Plan Huge Growth In Sustainable Finance And Launches Regional Programme For Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\nUN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maintaining\nthe momentum of the Secretary-General\u2019s Climate Summit last month, a global network\nof 30 financial centres \u2013 accounting for $61.3 trillion in equity market\ncapitalization and representing 80 percent of global equity markets \u2013 today\nagreed to mainstream green and sustainable finance both locally and\ninternationally, also agreeing to set common targets by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\njust over two years, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-convened International\nNetwork of Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) has grown from a small\nmovement into one that includes major financial centres from across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\ncentres met in Geneva to set out a new strategy aiming to align their\ninvestments with the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals \u2013\nboth of which need a major boost in funding to achieve their objectives. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/global-network-financial-centres-plan-huge-growth-sustainable\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Maintaining the momentum of the Secretary-General\u2019s Climate Summit last month, a global network of 30 financial centres \u2013 accounting for $61.3 trillion in equity market capitalization and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}