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07 February 2018

How do you fund a sustainable tomorrow?

 Financial services’ role in helping meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals

This paper examines the ways in which the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a substantial opportunity and responsibility for the financial services (FS) sector to shape a sustainable world. FS plays a key role in enabling corporations and governments to fund initiatives that address the SDGs and plug a US$2.5t annual funding gap.

This paper helps:

•CEOs to understand the transformative impact the SDGs will have on the FS industry, and how to link this to corporate strategy

•CROs to understand the diversity of risks, such as changing regulations and stakeholder expectations, and build this into risk management

•COOs to understand the implications of applying the SDGs to business operations, including the opportunities, markets and products created

•Investors, bankers, insurers, and sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) professionals in FS to identify how opportunities, such as impact investments, blended finance and new kinds of investors will transform the industry

Document ID: 2018-5234

 
 

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