The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced new partnerships and commitments to promote food security and sustainable agriculture around the world and to combat hunger and poverty and. These steps were taken during the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, Spain.

On the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission announced today a new type of guarantee agreement that will provide up to €5 billion to de-risk investments and expand EIB operations outside the European Union (EU). Today's guarantee has the potential to unlock up to €10 billion in funding for critical projects in clean energy, green infrastructure and access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in partner countries.

La presidenta del Grupo Banco Europeo de Inversiones (Grupo BEI), Nadia Calviño, el vicepresidente Ambroise Fayolle, y Andrew McDowell, director general de EIB Global —la dirección especializada del Grupo BEI dedicada a aumentar el impacto de las alianzas internacionales y la financiación del desarrollo—, encabezarán la delegación del BEI en la Cuarta Conferencia Internacional de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Financiación para el Desarrollo en Sevilla (España), que se celebrará desde el domingo 29 de junio hasta el jueves 3 de julio.