白宫
2022 年 6 月 26 日
德国克伦市埃尔茂城堡
欧洲中部夏令时间下午 5 点 19 分
 
总统：非常感谢。各位下午好。
我们的国家和我们的世界正处于历史上一个真正的转折点。科学技术使得我们的世界变得更小、更同步、并且更紧密的连接在一起。科技发展带来了大量机遇，但也加速了影响我们所有国家的挑战：管理全球能源需求、应对气候危机、应对疾病传播。
在我看来，我们现在所做的选择将为我们的世界设定未来几代人的方向。
这些挑战对我们所有人来说都是艰巨的，即便是拥有资源的七国集团（G7）国家也是如此。但发展中国家往往缺乏必要的基础设施帮助它们来应对全球性冲击，比如全球性流行病。因此，它们对这些影响的感受更加强烈，也更难恢复。
在我们紧密相连的世界中，这不仅仅是一个人道主义问题，也是我们所有国家的经济和安全问题。
因此，在一年以前，当在座的各位领导人在康沃尔郡 (Cornwall) 举行会议时，我们就做出了一項承诺：七国集团的民主国家将加快步伐——加快步伐，为发展中国家和中等收入国家建设优质、高标准和可持续的基础设施提供资金。
我们所做的事情在本质上与众不同，因为它是建立在我身后所有人士所代表的国家和组织之共同价值观之上的。它是使用全球最佳实践构建的：透明度、伙伴关系以及对劳工和环境的保护。
我们为各国和世界各地的人们提供更好的选择，为那些能够改善他们生活的关键基础设施投资——他们的生活和我们所有人的生活——并为我们所有的人带来真正的惠益，而不仅仅是七国集团——我们所有的人。
今天，我们正式启动“全球基础设施和投资伙伴关系” (Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment)。我们在全球范围内已有数十个项目正在进行中。
我自豪地宣布，美国将在未来五年内为这一伙伴关系筹集 2000 亿美元的公共和私人资金。
我们今天在此共聚一堂，是因为我们作为七国集团共同做出这一承诺，并相互协调以最大限度地发挥我们的影响。
我们的目标是：到 2027 年从七国集团共同筹集近 6000 亿美元的资金。
这些战略投资的领域——对可持续发展和我们共同的全球稳定来说至关重要：卫生和健康保障、数位连接、性别平等和公平、以及气候和能源安全。
让我来举例说明每个领域中正在进行的某些项目。
第一，卫生。两年前，新冠肺炎疫情——关于医疗保健系统和卫生安全方面投资的重要性毋庸赘言，而健康保障既是为了抗击这一流行病，也是为下一次流行病做好准备，因为这肯定不是我们必须应对的最后一场大流行病。
因此，美国与七国集团合作伙伴以及世界银行一起在塞内加尔投资建设一个新的大规模疫苗生产设施。完工之后，它将可以每年为新冠肺炎和其它疾病生产数亿剂疫苗。
这项投资将增加全球疫苗供应，并改善发展中国家的可及性和公平性。
第二，在数位领域。我们的经济未来越来越依赖于人们连接安全信息和通信技术的能力。我们需要加强对可信技术的使用，以便我们的在线信息不会被独裁者用来巩固其政权或压制人民。
因此，“数位投资计划” (Digital Invest Program) 动员了 3.35 亿美元的私人资金，在非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲提供安全的网络设备。
美国政府还支持一家美国公司 SubCom 成功竞标一项六亿美元的合同，建设全球海底电信电缆。这条电缆将覆盖东南亚地区，并穿过中东和非洲之角到达欧洲。
就满足世界上这三个重要地区对可靠、安全的高科技连接之不断增长的需求而言，这一项目至关重要。
第三，性别。当妇女和女孩有能力和机会参与——在这些社会和经济体系中更充分地参与时，我们不仅会在她们的社区中看到积极的影响，而且会在各个方面都看到积极的影响。
但是，我们必须创造更多这种机会，让妇女和女孩得以成长和发展，包括在继续开展保护和促进妇女基本权利重要工作的同时采取切实措施，普及她们有能力负担的儿童保育。
美国承诺在五年内向世界银行的全球“儿童保育奖励基金” (Childcare Incentive Fund) 提供 5000 万美元。这个由几个七国集团合作伙伴支持的公私合作伙伴关系将帮助各国建立基础设施，使妇女能够更容易和平等地——平等地——进入劳动力市场。
第四个领域——气候和能源——也是非常重要的。我们每天都能看到这个问题是多么的重要。整个世界都感受到了俄罗斯在乌克兰发动残酷战争的影响以及这场战争对我们能源市场所产生的影响。
我们需要在全球范围内对那些具有变革性的清洁能源项目进行大力投资，以确保关键的基础设施能够适应不断变化的气候。
我们在清洁能源转型中所必需的关键材料的开发（包括电池的生产）需要遵循有关劳动力和环境的高标准。
对于精炼和加工环节的原料运输以及扩大清洁能源技术的使用范围来说，包括铁路和港口在内的快速可靠的交通基础设施非常重要。
例如，美国政府刚刚促成两家美国公司与安哥拉政府建立了新的合作伙伴关系，投资 20 亿美元在安哥拉建设新的太阳能项目。这一伙伴关系将帮助安哥拉实现气候目标和满足能源需求，同时为美国的技术开拓新的市场，也为安哥拉——我想——甚至是整个非洲创造良好的就业机会。
在罗马尼亚，美国的纽斯凯尔电力公司 (NuScale Power) 将建造第一个同业领先的小型模块化反应堆工厂。这将有助于更快捷、更便宜、更高效地为欧洲带来零排放核能。
美国政府正在帮助推进这项开创性的美国技术的发展，这将强化欧洲的能源安全，并在罗马尼亚和美国创造数以千计的就业机会。
这些项目只是计划的一部分。我们已做好准备。我们已经准备好开始工作，与诸位共同行动。
为了引领这项工作——就我而言是引领美国方面的工作——我已任命我的总统特别协调员阿莫斯·霍赫斯坦 (Amos Hochstein) 与我们的其他同事协调。[他将]统一领导美国政府各部门在这方面的工作，推动与七国集团以及我们在世界各地的合作伙伴（包括私营部门和多边开发银行）的联盟和合作。
我谨在此申明：这不是援助或慈善事业；这是一项将为所有人带来回报的投资，包括美国人民和我们所有国家的人民。这将促进我们各国的经济发展，它提供了一个机会，让我们能够分享我们对未来的积极愿景，并让世界各地社区看到——让他们亲眼看到与民主国家合作的具体好处。
因为当民主制度展示出我们的潜力以及我们所能提供的一切时，我们将始终在竞争中胜出，我对此深信不疑。
谢谢大家。现在我邀请乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩主席 (President Ursula von der Leyen) 上台发表讲话。
欧洲中部夏令时间下午 5 点 28 分
 
欲查看原稿内容: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/06/26/remarks-by-president-biden-at-launch-of-the-partnership-for-global-infrastructure-and-investment/
本译文仅供参考，只有英文原稿才可以被视为权威资料来源。

JUNE 26, 2022•SPEECHES AND REMARKS
Schloss ElmauKrün, Germany
5:19 P.M. CEST
THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Well, good afternoon, folks.
Our nations and our world stand at a genuine inflection point in history.  Technology has made our world smaller, more immediate, and more connected.  It’s opened up incredible opportunities, but also accelerated challenges that impact on all of us: managing global energy needs, taking on the climate crisis, dealing with the spread of diseases.
And the choices we make now, in my view, are going to set a direction of our world for several generations to come.
These challenges are hard for all of us, even nations with resources of the G7.  But developing countries often lack the essential infrastructure to help navigate global shocks, like a pandemic.  So they feel the impacts more acutely, and they have a harder time recovering.
In our deeply connected world, that’s not just a humanitarian concern, it’s an economic and a security concern for all of us.
That’s why, one year ago, when this group of leaders met in Cornwall, we made a commitment: The democratic nations of the G7 would step up — step up and provide financing for quality, high-standard, sustainable infrastructure in developing and middle-income countries.
What we’re doing is fundamentally different because it’s grounded on our shared values of all those representing the countries and organizations behind me.  It’s built using the global best practices: transparency, partnership, protections for labor and the environment.
We’re offering better options for countries and for people around the world to invest in critical infrastructure that improves the lives — their lives, all of our lives — and delivers real gains for all of our people, not just the G7 — all of our people.
Today, we officially launch the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.  We collectively have dozens of projects already underway around the globe.
And I’m proud to announce the United States will mobilize $200 billion in public and private capital over the next five years for that Partnership.
We’re here today because we’re making this commitment together as a G7 in coordination with one another to maximize the impact of our work.
Collectively, we aim to mobilize nearly $600 billion from the G7 by 2027.
These strategic investments are areas of — critical to sustainable development and to our shared global stability: health and health security, digital connectivity, gender equality and equity, climate and energy security.
Let me give you some examples of the kinds of projects that are underway in each of these areas.
First, health.  Two years ago, COVID-19 — didn’t need any reminders about how critical investments in healthcare systems were and health sec- — and health security is, both to fight the pandemic and to prepare for the next one, because it will not be the last pandemic we under- — we have to deal with.
That’s why the United States, together with the G7 partners and the World Bank, are investing in a new industrial-scale vaccine manufacturing facility in Senegal.  When complete, it will have the potential to produce hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines annually for COVID-19 and other diseases.
It’s an investment that will enhance global vaccine supplies as well as improve access and equity for developing countries.
Second, in the digital area.  Our economies’ future increasingly depends on people’s ability to connect to secure information and communications technologies.  And we need to strengthen the use of trusted technologies so that our online information cannot be used by autocrats to consolidate their power or repress their people.
That’s why the Digital Invest Program is mobilizing $335 million in private capital to supply secure network equipment in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
And the U.S. government also supported the successful bid by an American company, SubCom, for a $600 million contract to build a global subsea telecommunications cable.  This cable will stretch from Southeast Asia, through the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, to Europe.
This will be essential to meeting the growing demand for reliable security, high-tech connectivity in three key regions of the world.
Third, gender.  When women and girls have the ability and the opportunity to parcia- — to participate more fully in those societies and economies, we see positive impacts not only in their communities but around the board — across the board.
We have to increase those opportunities, though, for women and girls to thrive, including practical steps to make childcare more accessible and affordable as we continue the vital work to protect and advance women’s fundamental rights.
The United States is committing $50 million over five years to the World Bank’s global Childcare Incentive Fund.  This public-private partnership supported by several G7 partners will help countries build infrastructure that makes it easier for women to participate equally — equally — in the labor force.
Fourth and very important, climate and energy.  We’re seeing just how critical this is every day.  The entire world is feeling the impact of Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine and on our energy markets.
We need worldwide effort to invest in transformative clean energy projects to ensure that critical infrastructure is resilient to changing climate.
Critical materials that are necessary for our clean energy transition, including the production of batteries, need to be developed with high standards for labor and the environment.
Fast and reliable transportation infrastructure, including railroads and ports, is essential to moving inputs for refining and processing and expanding access to clean energy technologies.
For example, the U.S. government just facilitated a new partnership between two American firms and the government of Angola to invest $2 billion in building new solar projects in Angola.  It’s a partnership that will help Angola meet its climate goals and energy needs while creating new markets for American technologies and good jobs in Angola and, I suspect, throughout Africa.
And in Romania, the American company, NuScale Power, will build a first-of-its-kind small modular reactor plant.  This will help bring online zero-emission nuclear energy to Europe faster, more cheaply, and more efficiently.
The U.S. government is helping to advance the development of this groundbreaking American technology, which will strengthen Europe’s energy security and create thousands of jobs in Romania and the United States.
These deals are just some of what’s in store.  And we’re ready.  We’re ready to get to work, together, all of us.
To lead efforts — to lead U.S. efforts, in my case — appointed — I appointed Amos Hochstein, my Special Presidential Coordinator, to deal with the rest of our colleagues.  I’ll [He’ll] lead the U.S. whole-of-government approach to drive a coalition and a collaboration with the G7 and our partners around the world, including private sector and multilateral development banks.
I want to be clear: This isn’t aid or charity; it’s an investment that will deliver returns for everyone, including the American people and the people of all our nations.  It’ll boost all of our economies, and it’s a chance for us to share our positive vision for the future and let communities around the world see themselves — and see for themselves the concrete benefits of partnering with democracies.
Because when democracies demonstrate what we can do, all that we have to offer, I have no doubt that we’ll win the competition every time.
Thank you.  And now I invite President von der Leyen to the podium.
5:28 P.M. CEST