International Business Forum seeks to marshal private capital for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

At the International Business Forum, a presenter said the forum will gather business leaders who "together control trillions of dollars" to push private investment toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The presenter, identified in the transcript as Speaker 1, said the forum will "help in the scaling up of private investment, look for solutions to scale up, unblock the obstacles, bring together the various stakeholders in the public and the private sector to agree on the solutions, the policies, and the actions needed to scale up private finance and investment for the sustainable development goals." Speaker 1 cited Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys and Syntesa as examples of participating firms.

Why it matters: meeting private financing needs is a core challenge for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals worldwide; Speaker 1 framed the International Business Forum as a venue to coordinate private-sector capital, public-sector partners and policy solutions to address those gaps.

Discussion in the transcript described the forum's role in convening stakeholders and identifying solutions, but did not record formal commitments, votes or specific policy measures. The remarks named three firms as participants and stated an ambition to "unblock the obstacles" to scaling private finance; no timetable, funding commitments, or specific policy proposals were provided in the recorded remarks.

The transcript contains a single substantive statement about the forum's purpose and participating firms. It did not include named government officials, references to specific statutes or formal actions arising from the remarks.