Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog by Dr Radek Stech is Senior Academic, Exeter Law School, and Founder of Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending (Global PSSL) and the ABC Score™. Michael Stanley-Jones is Environmental Policy and Governance Fellow, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), and Senior Advisor on Communications and Networking at Global PSSL. Increased private sector investment is needed to help fill the $4 trillion gap in annual SDG investment in emerging markets and developing economies   Unlocking greater long-term investment in SDGs will require policies that promote the long-term development of capital markets and institutional investors. Global financial markets rely on confidence in the issuance of stocks, bonds and loans to finance sustainable economic growth. The post-issuance phase, which includes the use of proceeds in investment projects, the trading of securities after they are first issued, the management of loans and...

New report identifies strategies to finance the SDGs and Climate Action UNITED NATIONS , New York, 21 September 2016  – Strategies to shift capital towards investments that generate climate action and sustainable development were discussed at the United Nations today at a high-level event to discuss a new report titled  “Links in the Chain of Sustainable Finance: Accelerating Private Investments for the SDGs, including Climate Action.” The high-level event was opened by the President of the UN General Assembly H.E. Peter Thomson and chaired by his predecessor H.E. Mogens Lykketoft . Discussions were centred around the report, commissioned by President of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly, Mr Lykketoft, and written by Brookings Institution scholars Homi Karas and John McArthur . Similar reports from UNEP and from the New Climate Economy were also discussed. The Brookings Institution report identifies strategies designed to shift the global flow...