Launch of Financing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement: The UN Ecosystem of Initiatives on Private Sector Finance
On July 13, 2021, on the virtual sidelines of the 2021 United Nations High-level Forum on Sustainable Development in New York – the HLPF, Stakeholder Forum and New World Frontiers held an HLPF ‘Pop-up’ Side Event to launch a new paper: Financing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement: The UN Ecosystem of Initiatives on Private Sector Finance The paper was put together with the support of UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNEP, UNEP, UNECE, UNCDF, UN Global Compact, IFAD for which we thank them. Felix Dodds - input to the side event: "The delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was estimated after it was agreed by several organizations from UNCTAD, the World Bank to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network to be in the region of US$3-$5 trillion annually. With the impact of COVID 19 that will have to be re-calculated This dwarfs the contribution from Overseas Development Aid which in 2020 ...