Introduction - Finance for #SDGs High Level Meeting – #financeforSDGs – Peter Head - Bellagio – 25-27 February 2015
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This document provides an introduction and objectives for a meeting on mobilizing finance for resilience. The objectives are to learn from each other, create new knowledge on scaling development efforts toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals, create a report to share this knowledge, learn collaborative tools, and help case study regions advance quickly. Introductory remarks discuss investing in resilience and climate risks, a more stable finance system investing in the real economy, and the role of data and systems modeling in facilitating incremental to transformational change, from siloed to collaborative work, and from lowest cost to performance-based approaches.
Introduction - Finance for #SDGs High Level Meeting – #financeforSDGs – Peter Head - Bellagio – 25-27 February 2015
- 1. INTRODUCTION Mobilising finance for resilience Peter Head Founder and Chief Executive #financeforSDGs
- 2. ecosequestrust.org/financeforSDGs __ Personal introductions Contents Section 1 Section 2 __ Objectives for our time together Section 3 __ Introductory remarks
- 4. 2.Objectives for our time together
- 5. Objectives ● Learn from each other ● Create new knowledge in how to scale and accelerate delivery of development moving towards SDGs ● Create a concise report to share this knowledge with the World. UCLG will host our report launch at Addis and NYC financing of SDG meetings in July ● Learn about the latest collaborative working tools ● Help your regions Brazil, Ghana, China, Mongolia and EU move forward quickly as case study demonstrators ● Have a great memorable time together
- 7. Briefing landscape ● 2015 Year of Sustainable Development ● Investing in resilience and managing climate risks ● A more stable finance system investing in the real economy ● The role of science and data and systems modelling
- 8. The journey ● Incremental TO transformational change ● Silo working TO multi-disciplinary collaboration ● Distrust of system TO independent inclusive trusted approach, respecting culture and diversity ● Data observatory TO data “collaboratory” ● Lowest cost TO performance based procurement ● Destroying soils and ecology TO building ecological health
- 9. Geographic framing-scale ● Households, SME’s and entrepreneurs ● Regions connecting urban and rural ● National policy and planning ● Global All are needed and they must connect and support each other
- 10. The immediate challenges ● “Finding smart ways of mobilizing more efficient and effective long term investment” “Tragedy of horizon” ● ”finding viable pathways” “scaling innovation quickly” ● ”handing technical and institutional barriers” ● ”Mobilising leadership, governance and transparency” ● "Value of financial assets –produced capital is 27% while human capital-skills and health- is 61% and natural capital 12%” UNEP ● “Inequality holds back human capital and ecological destruction undermines it”
- 11. Thank you