ANZ supports 3rd PIDF Summit

​ANZ has announced it would provide financial support to the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) 3rd Summit as the exclusive banking sponsor of the meeting.

The forum is being held next week in Suva, Fiji and has been established to discuss critical issues in sustainable development for the people of the Pacific, with the theme this year of “Building Climate Resilient Green Blue Pacific Economies”.

ANZ Head of Emerging Corporates Pacific & Fiji, Saud Minam said: “We are delighted to be supporting the PIDF Summit for the second year in a row, and believe it is the ideal event to role model collaboration between the public, private and civil society sectors to help build resilient, sustainable and economically strong Pacific nations.” 

Minam added that as a bank that has had a presence in the Pacific for 135 years with a network across 12 Pacific countries, ANZ is fully committed to working with customers and partners to drive social and environmental sustainability improvements.

PIDF Interim Secretary General,  Amena Yauvoli, welcomed ANZ’s contribution to the PIDF Summit.

“The private sector is the key driver for green growth, as its investing and innovating capacities are crucial for the transition to a resource and energy efficient low carbon economy,” said Yauvoli.

“Significant contributions by a strong and competitive private sector are necessary to successfully address the double challenge of reducing poverty as well as mitigation environmental degradation and the impact of climate change.”

Yauvoli added: “The PIDF therefore welcomes its partnership with the ANZ as a further expression of one of the three pillars of the PIDF which is partnerships with the private sector and will contribute to our mandate of helping the Pacific transition to a resource and energy efficient low carbon economy.”

PIDF is a unique platform that brings together leaders from the public and private sectors and civil society to address regional development challenges, through mutually beneficial innovative partnerships. PIDF was endorsed by Pacific Island Leaders in 2012 and Secretariat established in Suva in 2013.

ANZ has the largest geographical footprint of any bank in the region, with a presence in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Tonga, Samoa, American Samoa, Guam, Timor Leste and a representative office in New Caledonia.