Sustainable Development Goals (eBook)

JULIA WALKER is a senior global business executive with 20 years experience in the private sector principally in finance, technology, and risk management. She currently runs market growth and strategy in Asia for one of the world's largest providers of financial markets data, Infrastructure, and Risk Intelligence and is a member of the United Nations Secretary General's Task Force of Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals. DR ALMA PEKMEZOVIC is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, Sydney, Australia. Her key areas of expertise include capital markets law, corporate law and governance, and commercial law reform. During 2006 to 2015, Dr. Pekmezovic taught corporate and commercial law at La Trobe University School of Law, Melbourne, Australia. She was formerly a Lecturer in Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (2015-2018) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. DR GORDON WALKER SJD (Duke) is an Emeritus Professor of La Trobe University; Adjunct Professor at Curtin University School of Law; Visiting Professor, University of Padua Law School, Italy; and an advisor to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) designated as International Business Law Expert and International Financial Sector Expert. His research contracts at the ADB principally involve law reform in the areas of securities regulation, company, secured transactions and FinTech within the Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI-III) in the South Pacific.

About the Editors

Notes on Contributors

Foreword
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Foreword: Why we need to accelerate implementation of the SDGs.
Rt. Hon. Helen Clark

Preface

Introduction

Part One Overview and Context

Chapter 1 The UN and Goal Setting: From the MDGs to the SDGs
Alma Pekmezovic

Chapter 2 SDGs and the Role of International Financial Institutions
Suresh Nanwani

Chapter 3 Towards a New Global Narrative for the Sustainable Development Goals?
Iason Gabriel and Varun Gauri

Chapter 4 Overcoming Scarcity - the Paradox of Abundance: Harnessing Digitalisation in Financing Sustainable Development
Simon Zadek

Part Two Where will the money come from? Financing the SDGs

Chapter 5 The New Framework for Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs
Alma Pekmezovic

Chapter 6 The Contribution of the International Private Sector to a more Sustainable Future
Martin Blessing and Tom Naratil

Chapter 7 Re-Orienting the Global Financial System Towards Sustainability
Alma Pekmezovic

Chapter 8 How Asset Managers can Better Align Public Markets Investing with the SDGs
Emily Chew and Margaret Childe

Chapter 9 The Significance of Sustainable Development Goals for Government Credit Quality
Alastair Wilson

Part Three Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Chapter 10 FinTech for Financial Inclusion: Driving Sustainable Growth
Dirk A. Zetzsche, Ross P. Buckley & Douglas W. Arner

Chapter 11 Financing and Self-Financing of SDGs through Financial Technology, Legal and Fiscal Tools
Jon Truby

Chapter 12 SDG Challenges In G20 Countries
Guillaume Lafortune and Guido Schmidt-Traub

Chapter 13 The Future-Fit Business Benchmark: Flourishing Business in a Truly Sustainable Future
Geoff Kendall and Martin Rich

Chapter 14 Financing for Youth Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development
Inna Amesheva, Alex Clark, Julian Payne

Chapter 15 Digitisation in the Supply Chain
Julia Walker

Part Four Facilitating the SDGs by Legal Infrastructure Reform

Chapter 16 Facilitating Sustainable Development Goal 8 by Legal Reform Measures
Gordon Walker

Chapter 17 Facilitating SDGs by Tax System Reform
Benjamin Walker

Chapter 18 Facilitating SDGs by Competition and Consumer Law and Policy Reform: Aspirations and Challenges in PNG
Brent Fisse

Appendix: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

UN General Assembly

Index