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Seville conference launches platform to translate financing commitments into action, warns of $4 trillion SDG gap
Summary
A representative of the government of Spain opened the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, urging concrete action to close a reported $4 trillion annual gap to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and announcing a Seville platform for coalitions to accelerate implementation.
A representative of the government of Spain opened the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville and urged nations and institutions to “choose ambition over paralysis,” announcing a new Seville platform to help translate commitments into concrete action.
The speaker said the financing gap to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is “estimated at $4,000,000,000,000 annually,” and cited a progress report that, in the speaker’s words, finds “only 1 third of the measurable goals will be met.” The opening remarks framed the summit as an…
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