The FINAL report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Finance is out
I had been dreading this for the last few weeks particular when a couple of members let me know what was and wasn’t in the report. So today I got up went to my favourite local cafe order a couple of strong coffees and read the report . For those who do not read this blog often I would share with you that I have had serious concerns about the way this committee’s work was going from before the zero draft. I have blogged on it a number of times and also put forward a set of 21 areas I would hope would be covered in the report. A warning to young readers this blog contains an unhappy and disappointed Felix. Unhappy because of what the report could have been and disappointed because it means the work still will have to be done for next year. The cupboard of ideas is bare... Stakeholder engagement All of this could have been so different. Stakeholders were excluded from the meetings unlike the SDG OWG or other Intergovernmental Committees on different issues of sustainabl...