Raising the Bar on Climate Ambition: Road to COP 26 Remarks by Ignazio Visco Governor of the Bank of Italy Asian Development Bank – 54th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors Virtual event, 4 May 2021  •  Climate change and the pandemic are the most important global problems of our times.
The decline in logging that the crisis provoked has hurt the country. As the global economic situation recovers so we see a clear upturn in log exports. Second quarter results are up and the Bank predicts further increases in the third quarter. It must be remembered however, that the contribution of forestry to the Solomon Islands economy are numbered.