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Investing In Infrastructure
The week of May 10th marked Infrastructure Week in the US, hosted by United for Infrastructure in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, and American Society of Civil Engineers. This year, Infrastructure Week was particularly noteworthy, since...
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Disability And Inclusion Dialogues
Over the next few months, Goal 17 Partners will be hosting a series of dialogues on disability inclusion in partnership with Global Goals Advisory and The Harkin Institute, This series will focus on bringing together the disability and investor communities...
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The IMF And World Bank Are Shooting For A Fair Recovery
Each spring, the World Bank Group hosts its bi-annual meeting in partnership with the International Monetary Fund to discuss progress on the work of these institutions and to foster dialogue for the challenges ahead. This year, the central topic was...
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Headlines From The 2020 Green Horizon Summit: The Pivotal Role Of Finance
“We need a shift in our economic model that places nature and the world’s transition to net zero at the heart of how we operate, prioritizing the pursuit of sustainable, inclusive growth in the decades to come.” HRH The Prince of...
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Cross Sector Collaboration to Accelerate Sustainable Infrastructure
As our world becomes increasingly more aware of the threat that the climate crisis poses, players from the private sector are taking action to help change our collective trajectory. Leaders in this space are coming together to find ways to...
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Goal 17 Partners Joins Global Goals Week Coalition
Goal 17 Partners is excited to join over 100 partners as part of this year’s Global Goals Week Coalition. Global Goals Week is an annual week of action, awareness, and accountability for the SDGs. From September 18-26, the coalition will mobilize...
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Recharging the Region: Sustainable Business in Post-Pandemic Asia
Goal 17 Partners, in collaboration with Global Perspectives, hosted a series of online discussions the week of July 20-21, 2020. The aim of these discussions was to highlight and support the sustainability movement in Asia and drive continued momentum around equality and diversity....
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Build Back Better
On a recent call co-hosted by Goal 17 Partners for our network with colleagues from the UN, Dawda Jobarteh, Global Head of the SDG Strategy Hub, shared his insight on how the UN is thinking about recovery from the Covid-19...
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More Economic Support Is Needed For Recovery
Scott Minerd, chief investment officer of Guggenheim Investments, said there could be rolling shutdowns for the next two years, preventing a full-scale return to work, and that U.S. unemployment could reach as high as 17%. Speaking to Bloomberg’s Sonali Basak,...
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Innovative Partnerships In A Time Of Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis underscores the social and economic connectivity across the world, while at the same time exposing our vulnerability to extreme challenges like a pandemic. As governments and international institutions battle the pandemic, there are increasing calls for cross-sector...
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Getting To A Net Zero Carbon Economy
Private sector leaders are increasingly making bold public commitments toward achieving net-zero or even carbon negative goals. But there is still a $5.7 trillion annual funding gap in green infrastructure to limit the world to 1.5°C of warming, according to...
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Reconsidering Measures Of Value
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Earnings-per-Share (EPS), and Yield are measures of value that are foundational to the management of our economy, corporations, and markets. For decades these widely-recognized quantitative measures have been used to plan development, allocate capital, and determine...
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