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The 2000 Annual UNEP Finance Initiatives Roundtable: "Globalisation and Sustainable Development - Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Sector" brought together perspectives on finance and sustainable development from some 260 senior representatives in the financial services, business, government, non-government and international government sectors. The topics discussed included: the role of micro-finance in poverty alleviation; environmental management and reporting in the finance sector; innovative financing of technologies for renewable energy; environmental performance indicators; the social aspects of corporate responsibility in a global context.