Devex: Innovative financing needed to counter stalled SDG progress
“Innovative sources of financing are necessary to advance stalled progress on eradicating global poverty by 2030, United Nations ambassadors said Tuesday, cautioning that governments alone do not have the required funds to meet the Sustainable Development Goals on poverty, health, environment, and justice. Member states gathered early this week at the U.N. for the second annual forum on financing for development, almost two years after the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, which established a framework for implementing the 2030 development goals…” (Lieberman, 5/24).