Center for Sustainable Development Media Mentions
Ultimately it’s about digitizing the ecosystems of the world in a way that allows us to understand [other species’] preferences, which is interspecies communication.
The idea that philanthropy, that any single individual, has enough money to affect something at a global scale is a very new phenomenon. [Most billionaires have] accumulated their wealth because the world economy is now globalized, but to sustain a globalized world economy we need to have more inclusive growth.
Altogether, emerging markets and developing countries other than China will need to invest around an additional $0.8tn per year by 2025 and close to $2tn per year by 2030
To date there has been very little impact measurement [of the $100 billion climate finance pledge]. It is a very important issue. People look at impact in terms of the composition of finance, things that relate to the financing side. But in terms of real impact of climate finance, and efficacy across different donors, there has been no development impact or climate impact study done to date.
You’re taking the DFC down a slippery slope of being a national security agency instead of a development agency.
[Morocco's Noor solar plant has] tremendous impact in terms of both a development outcome, but preventing, in some sense, that much emissions.
[The pandemic recovery may provide rare opportunities for those toiling for low wages.] This time, people searching for jobs may have a lot of different options. That is not typical.
[Canada's] corporate leaders need to play a much bigger role in helping to drive change [on the SDGs].
It is unlikely that rich countries hit the target of mobilising $100bn per year [of climate aid] by 2020.
The IMF and the World Bank early on understood that the crisis and the economic recession … would be very broad and very deep . . . [Their push on the G20 to suspend debt payments for dozens of low-income countries] was the first major step in ensuring that the pandemic didn’t trigger a debt crisis that could have longer term consequences.