Sentence examples for Fast-start finance from inspiring English sources

Fast-start finance can be allocated on the basis of historical ties and in the context of western countries' desire to cement important trade relationships.

Donor countries have met their initial commitment on fast-start finance.

"So far Bangladesh has received $200m from the fast-start finance, half of which has come from Britain.

Clarity on future funding is important because a three-year period of "fast-start finance" totaling more than $30 billion ends this year.

We are on track to give £1.5bn for fast-start finance and our share of the long-term goal of $100bn by 2020," said Davey.

Several developed countries, including the USA and EU nations, plan to release reports in Cancún outlining their allocation of "fast-start finance".

The fund is unlikely to have much sway over the initial round of "fast-start" financing from rich to poor countries that was agreed at the Copenhagen summit in 2009.

They say it is needed because although developed countries have already provided or pledged – by some calculations – nearly $30bn of "fast-start" financing by the end of this year, and have pledged to ensure flows of $100bn a year by 2020, there is no commitment on how to ramp up to that larger figure.

The fast-start financing picture has improved considerably since then.

And now governments are finally stepping up, with more than $30 billion in "fast-start" financing (as tracked by the World Resources Institute, our own REDDX initiative, and others) for projects that get rolling early.

We will very much be watched to see whether some of our Member States and the EU as such are ready now, in Doha, to send some very clear signals about what can be expected financially in the years after the fast-start financing.