July 13th HLPF ‘Pop-up’ Side Event to launch a new paper - Financing for the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement: The UN Ecosystem of Initiatives on Private Sector Finance
You are invited to join Stakeholder Forum and New World Frontiers
for an HLPF ‘Pop-up’
Virtual Side Event to launch a new paper:
Financing for the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement: The UN Ecosystem of Initiatives on Private Sector Finance
Tuesday, July 13th 10:45 to 11:45 New York. Please, check the different time zones here.
Moderated by Charles Nouhan, Chairman,
Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
Speakers
Felix Dodds, Adjunct Professor at the University
of North Carolina, USA
Krishnan Sharms, Chief, Strategic Engagement Unit,
Financing for Sustainable Development Office, United Nations Department
of Economic and Social Affairs
Olcay Patrycja Tetik, Knowledge Management and
Communications Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme SDG
Finance Sector Hub
Marie Morice, Head of Sustainable Finance United
Nations Global Compact
Tony Bonnici, Officer in Charge Cooperation and
Partnerships Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, New York office (TBC)
Liesel Van Ast, Membership and Regional Co-ordination
Manager, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
“Now a new generation of policy innovation
is aiming to ensure that the financial system serves the needs of inclusive,
environmentally sustainable, economic development. These innovations in
financial and monetary policies and regulations, along with wider market
standards are creating a critical nexus between the rules that govern the
financial system and sustainable development.” The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System
This timely paper is an overview of the UN Ecosystem of Initiatives on the private sector finance role in helping to finance the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. The delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been estimated by several organizations, from the World Bank to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, to be in the region of US$3-$5 trillion annually. This dwarfs the contribution from Overseas Development aid, which is in the region of US$150 billion annually.
The financing for the SDGs and the Paris Agreement will need a refocusing of private sector finance. In that context, this paper explores the state of the UN ecosystem of initiatives on private sector finance in support of this.
The realignment of private sector finance to support sustainable development and to stop funding activities that take us in the wrong direction has accelerated since the 2012 Rio+20 conference, the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, and the Paris Agreement.
2021 has seen action on fossil fuel company boards where, recently, three
directors committing to move them towards renewables (EXXON-Mobile) have been
elected. And a Netherlands court ruled that the Royal Dutch Shell company needs
to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. Moody’s estimated in 2019 that the total
green bond market was heading to $250 billion with the COVID recovery packages
being built around green technology; this is going to increase substantively in
the coming years.
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Charles
Nouhan, Chairman
New
York Representative to the United Nations
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