Hello everyone, welcome to the next episode of the

PWC Taxbyte podcast series. My name is Peter DeRae, Global Tax Director at

PWC Brussels and I welcome you to this new episode. Before we start with the

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In this episode, we will talk about green, green investments, green funding. It is a topic that comes up when I talk with

various businesses, also with the pandemic situation we are still into today, but with the outlook

of recovering from the pandemic, companies are looking into investments to recover.

And some of these investments can be green ecological investments or socially friendly investments.

And I thought it was a good idea to have a discussion on this topic with real experts in the field.

And with me today, three real experts.

We have Ivan Peters.

Ivan is a partner in PwC legal,

or affiliated law firm of PWC, and he is responsible for capital markets and finance,

both on the funding and the investment side. Next to Ivan, we have Reynout de Klerk.

Reynout is an expert in ESG and responsible investments. He's basically the practice leader for this in Belgium. And Emilie Etundi is here with us. Emily is a manager

in our government incentives team. Her role is to support companies to secure funding,

to support their activities.

So I think we have the right people in the call and we have a very interesting topic to talk

about.

So as I already explained, well, the ecological challenges are of course enormous.

We had a pandemic, we have a sanitary crisis, but with a sanitary crisis, yeah, still ongoing,

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