This week, we attended the UN General Assembly in New York, with a focus on four issues: climate, health, multilateral cooperation, and women. The different meetings confirmed that we are making real progress in making multilateral institutions work as one system to tackle global challenges.
Together with the World Health Organisation, we launched a new platform to mobilise 1.5 billion dollars for primary healthcare, starting in Africa. We also signed an agreement with the Vaccine Alliance and other partners for a stronger response to global health emergencies. And with the Gates Foundation, and the UN Population Fund, we are improving access to safe contraception, putting women in the driving seat of their own lives.
Every dollar spent on climate resilience saves five to seven in disaster response and recovery, but we need to make sure that we develop the breakthrough technologies at scale to make green investments profitable and boost competitiveness now. This is also one of the issues we discussed with philanthropists Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton.
Back in Luxembourg, the president of the European Investment Bank Nadia Calviño had a very productive meeting with António Costa, President-elect of the European Council. She also met Pope Francis who shared a strong message calling for peace.
We announced new investments in Denmark, France and Iceland, and digital payments across the European Union.
And in Ukraine, we signed new financing for the Kyiv metro, to keep cities and the economy running as normally as possible in these hard times!
Watch President Calviño's previous One week, one minute recaps.
