G7 Italy-digi

Investing in innovative Italy
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"Our concern is
that a feeling of
insecurity is leading
to the rise of populist
movements"
Vincenzo Boccia
President
Confindustria
Vincenzo Boccia became President of Confindustria, the organisation of
Italian entrepreneurs, in May 2016. He started in the Young Entrepreneurs
of Confindustria and became national Vice President in 2000. From 2003
to 2007 he was President of Confindustria Assafrica & Mediterranean
and then a member of the Council of Assografici. From 2009 to 2013 he
was President of Confindustria’s Piccola Industria, focused on SMEs’
development and growth, and later Vice President of the Confederation.
He is also the CEO of Arti Grafiche Boccia, an Italian graphics and
printing company.
@Confindustria
www.confindustria.it
Helping SMEs obtain finance
However, business cannot do it alone. Access
to finance is vital. Financing schemes,
particularly those for small and mediumsized
enterprises (SMEs), should be set up to
boost transnational partnerships and global
supply chains. The B7 has given the G7
concrete recommendations to match business
objectives for global competitiveness and
environmental sustainability targets.
The B7 reached out to the B20 by holding
a workshop on ‘Resource Efficiency’ coorganised
with the Global Business Coalition,
the association of business organisations
in the G20 members, at Confindustria’s HQ
in Rome before the B7 began. Included in
Germany’s B20 programme, and interacting
with Italy’s G7, the workshop assessed
the roles of institutions and business
in drawing a common road map for the
efficient and sustainable use of available
resources and addressed its conclusions to
both the G7 Taormina Summit and the G20
Hamburg Summit. Several distinguished
speakers addressed the audience, among
them Gian Luca Galletti, Italy’s Minister of
the Environment, and Kristalina Georgieva,
CEO of the World Bank.
Confindustria thus bridged the two
governance forums of the G7 and the G20,
showing how conscious business is of its
role and how deeply it is engaged in shaping
a better world for future generations. Next
year is the B7 Canada, so I wish my Canadian
colleagues great success for 2018. G7
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