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In order to catalyse efforts to promote effective financial inclusion in Brazil, the National Partnership for Financial Inclusion (PNIF) was launched in November 2011, under the coordination of Banco Central do Brasil. In 2015, PNIF launched its second action plan: the Plan for Strengthening Financial Citizenship, which will last from 2016 to 2019. This plan joins actors from the public and private sectors in initiatives aimed at strengthening the three pillars of Financial Citizenship, namely Financial Education, Financial Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion. The Plan is aligned with the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), along with other drivers as the Maya Declaration and the G20's Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP). (...)

The central government (...)is responsible for promoting environmentally responsible exports that create more employment and added value, in particular exports from small and medium sized producers.

The authorities consider that the revision of the Investment Catalogue denotes an important effort to comprehensively open up the Chinese economy to foreign investment. According to the information supplied by the authorities, the 2015 Catalogue includes a total of 423 entries, 48 less than the 2011 Catalogue. The authorities also noted that the number of restricted sectors was reduced from 79 in 2011 to 39 in 2015; while the number of encouraged sectors remained mainly unchanged (Box 2.2; Table A2.3; and Table A2.4). The revised Catalogue aims at channelling FDI towards industries that require restructuring through the use of new equipment and new and greener technologies. According to the authorities, the 2015 Catalogue was revised to open the economy mainly in the services sector but also in manufacturing; the revision is intended to promote the use of foreign investment in a more efficient manner.

Papua New Guinea's strategic development framework comprises three levels. • At the top level, Vision 2050 establishes the country's overall strategic direction over the 40 years from 2010 to 2050.
(...) Vision 2050 is based on seven strategic focus areas, which are: (...) • Environmental sustainability and climate change (...)

(…) The various challenges of crop production in Pakistan include insufficient irrigation, limited adoption of modern farming techniques, various plant pests, irregular rainfall, inadequate storage facilities, low-quality seeds, farm fragmentation, and natural disasters such as the 2010 flooding.

The Joint Communication proposes ways the EU can step up and play a stronger role at global and regional level in shaping the way oceans are managed and used. It sets out detailed actions to shape international governance in three priority areas:
 improving the international framework for ocean governance;
 reducing human pressures on the oceans and creating the conditions for a sustainable blue economy;
strengthening international ocean research and data.

Fiscal expenditure continued to favor weakly funded areas that would help promote people's livelihood, energy conservation, emission reduction, and ecological environment and so forth. (…)

Much work has been undertaken to the movement of policy formulation since 2008 to achieve the long-term vision for sustainable development in Mauritius. In April, 2011, the MID Green Paper, launched by the Government, became the foundation of the MID policy development process and a milestone for stimulating discussion on the MID concept in the public arena.

The narrow economic base, susceptibility to natural disasters, and a high reliance on imports makes the OECS particularly vulnerable to exogenous shocks. (…)

The Investment Incentive Program aims to (...) promote investments for clustering and environment protection for the production and export-oriented growth strategy in line with the projected targets in Development Plans and Annual Programs as well as international agreements.