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Financial investors of more than 30 different faiths attended the Faith in Finance meeting in Zug, Switzerland. Qiu Zhonghui, General-Secretary of the Amity Foundation also joined the the talk on religious investment funds. At the Faith in Finance meeting, Elliott Harris, UN Assistant Secretary-General stressed that investment in the field of sustainable development will play an important role in the 2030 Agenda of the UN. The United Nations estimates that religious institutional funds make up around US$10 trillion of the world's invested funds. Participants set out their own Guidelines on what they will invest in, noting that a good proportion of the money should be invested in environmental and sustainable development. Delegates agreed to set up a platform for cooperation and investment service under the sustainable framework of the Agenda 2030.