The assessment of where things stand on both the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the growing climate crisis was a bit like New York’s weather on Monday — rather grim.
I’m particularly reflective this whirlwind week around the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meetings this year — be it the fact that it’s a moment of global reckoning on the SDGs, or that I’ve just marked my 10-year anniversary at Devex covering these issues.
I’ve been thinking back to a piece I wrote in 2015 about how the private sector had pushed for a seat at the table with the SDGs. This week, one thing I’ll be watching as I head to the Clinton Global Initiative, Bloomberg Transition Finance Action Forum, High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development, and more is whether the companies and financiers have stepped up in the years since — and if so, how.
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Adva Saldinger@AdvaSal
Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.
