Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance, Technology and Law Reform
Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental rethink from businesses and governments across the globe. To make the ambitious goals a reality, trillions of dollars need to be harnessed to mobilise finance and accelerate progress towards the SDGs.
Bringing together leaders from the World Bank, the financial and business sectors, the startup community and academia, this important, topically relevant volume explains what the SDGs are, how they came about and how they can be accelerated. Real-world case studies and authoritative insights address how to direct investment of existing financial resources and re-align the global financial system to reflect the SDGs.
In depth chapters discuss how financial institutions, such as UBS Wealth Management, Manulife Asset Management and Moody’s Rating Agency are supporting the SDGs. The opportunities arising from Blockchain, Big Data, Digital Identity and cutting-edge Fin Tech and Reg Tech applications are explored, whilst the relevance of sustainable and transparent global supply chains is underscored. Significant attention is paid to law reform which can accelerate progress of the SDGs through SME Financing, Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer Lending and tax restructuring.
To achieve the ‘World We Want’, much needs to be done. The recommendations contained within this book are critical for supporting a fundamental shift in thinking from business and governments around the world, and for building a more just and prosperous future for all.
Tabella dei contenuti
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Mahmoud Mohieldin
Foreword: Why we need to accelerate implementation of the SDGs.
Rt. Hon. Helen Clark
Preface
Introduction
Part One Overview and Context
Chapter 1 The UN and Goal Setting: From the MDGs to the SDGs
Alma Pekmezovic
Chapter 2 SDGs and the Role of International Financial Institutions
Suresh Nanwani
Chapter 3 Towards a New Global Narrative for the Sustainable Development Goals?
Iason Gabriel and Varun Gauri
Chapter 4 Overcoming Scarcity – the Paradox of Abundance: Harnessing Digitalisation in Financing Sustainable Development
Simon Zadek
Part Two Where will the money come from? Financing the SDGs
Chapter 5 The New Framework for Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs
Alma Pekmezovic
Chapter 6 The Contribution of the International Private Sector to a more Sustainable Future
Martin Blessing and Tom Naratil
Chapter 7 Re-Orienting the Global Financial System Towards Sustainability
Alma Pekmezovic
Chapter 8 How Asset Managers can Better Align Public Markets Investing with the SDGs
Emily Chew and Margaret Childe
Chapter 9 The Significance of Sustainable Development Goals for Government Credit Quality
Alastair Wilson
Part Three Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Chapter 10 Fin Tech for Financial Inclusion: Driving Sustainable Growth
Dirk A. Zetzsche, Ross P. Buckley & Douglas W. Arner
Chapter 11 Financing and Self-Financing of SDGs through Financial Technology, Legal and Fiscal Tools
Jon Truby
Chapter 12 SDG Challenges In G20 Countries
Guillaume Lafortune and Guido Schmidt-Traub
Chapter 13 The Future-Fit Business Benchmark: Flourishing Business in a Truly Sustainable Future
Geoff Kendall and Martin Rich
Chapter 14 Financing for Youth Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development
Inna Amesheva, Alex Clark, Julian Payne
Chapter 15 Digitisation in the Supply Chain
Julia Walker
Part Four Facilitating the SDGs by Legal Infrastructure Reform
Chapter 16 Facilitating Sustainable Development Goal 8 by Legal Reform Measures
Gordon Walker
Chapter 17 Facilitating SDGs by Tax System Reform
Benjamin Walker
Chapter 18 Facilitating SDGs by Competition and Consumer Law and Policy Reform: Aspirations and Challenges in PNG
Brent Fisse
Appendix: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
UN General Assembly
Index
Circa l’autore
JULIA WALKER is a senior global business executive with 20 years experience in the private sector principally in finance, technology, and risk management. She currently runs market growth and strategy in Asia for one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data, Infrastructure, and Risk Intelligence and is a member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Task Force of Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals.
DR ALMA PEKMEZOVIC is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, Sydney, Australia. Her key areas of expertise include capital markets law, corporate law and governance, and commercial law reform. During 2006 to 2015, Dr. Pekmezovic taught corporate and commercial law at La Trobe University School of Law, Melbourne, Australia. She was formerly a Lecturer in Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (2015-2018) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany.
DR GORDON WALKER SJD (Duke) is an Emeritus Professor of La Trobe University; Adjunct Professor at Curtin University School of Law; Visiting Professor, University of Padua Law School, Italy; and an advisor to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) designated as International Business Law Expert and International Financial Sector Expert. His research contracts at the ADB principally involve law reform in the areas of securities regulation, company, secured transactions and Fin Tech within the Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI-III) in the South Pacific.
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