Ecobreves – ARGENTINA:: Small Enterprise Needs Green Credits

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BUENOS AIRES, Nov 18 2003 (IPS) - Small and medium businesses face great difficulties in obtaining financing for “clean” production processes, although these companies provide 60 percent of the jobs in the country, according to organizers of a seminar on sustainable development for small enterprise. The International Forum of Small and Medium Enterprise for Environmental, Economic and Social Development is to take place Nov. 19-20 in Buenos Aires, convened by the German technical cooperation agency GTZ.

The objective is to underscore the importance that small businesses incorporate sustainable development in all its aspects — environmental, social and economic.

Participants in the seminar will include officials from Argentina, Brazil and Chile, representatives from the United Nations Environment Program, from the Economic Commission for Latin America and from the Argentine Chamber of Processing Industries.