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SDGs remain off track and underfunded

Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Rebeca Grynspan speaks during an interview
Unctad secretary-general Rebeca Grynspan told the WEF annual meeting in Davos that the pandemic and the war in Ukraine had stymied progress towards the SDGs, requiring a “significant increase” in FDI to fill the $4tn annual investment gap (Photo: Fabrice Coffin /AFP via Getty Images)

Without immediate support from the public and private sectors, the Sustainable Development Goals will not be met

A year ago, Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, called for the private sector to recalibrate its foreign direct investment to rejuvenate the sustainability development goals. Her words appear to have largely fallen on deaf ears.

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