G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors held their third meeting on July 23-24 in Chengdu, and issued the final Communiqué before this year's G20 Summit in Hangzhou, emphasizing the development of green finance and welcoming voluntary options developed by the G20 Green Finance Study Group (GFSG).

This year green finance was incorporated for first time into the G20 agenda. At the initiative of the Chinese G20 presidency, the G20 established the GFSG, co-chaired by China and the United Kingdom with support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as secretariat.

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