Italia: Il Presidente Draghi al Vertice G7

Thank you all, I’ve just a few words after everything that has been said.
This group of countries has been the largest financier in assistance to investment projects in developing countries. We have to do more, and we also want to be, in this effort, widely acknowledged in partnerships with developing countries.
Multilateral development banks, and especially the World Bank, will be mobilised even further, together with the private sector. Again, a wide effort of partnership with developing countries has to be undertaken.
You’ve heard the many areas in which these investment projects are going to be undertaken, but I want to put more stress on two areas: one is energy and the other is healthcare.
Energy. It is quite clear that, in the present situation, we’ll have short term needs that will require large investments in gas infrastructure in developing countries and elsewhere, but we have to make sure that they can be [converted] to carry hydrogen – so that’s a way to reconcile short term needs with long term climate needs. Also, many developing countries and one continent – Africa – is exceptionally suited for investments in renewables. That’s where I would expect all our countries to fund and design, identify and design, many investment projects in this area.
On vaccines, again this group of countries, the European Union and the United States, has been by far the largest donor – this group of countries including Canada and Japan – by far the largest donors of vaccines. We’ll continue many initiatives in this field, but now it is clear that more is needed, namely to enable African countries and other countries to produce the vaccines on their own land so that the vaccines could be readily available to their people.
Thank you.