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.

 

Register 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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