Leaders will soon gather in Sevilla, Spain, on a rescue mission: to help fix how the world invests in sustainable development.
The stakes could not be higher. A decade after the adoption of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and many global commitments to finance them, two-thirds of the targets are lagging. And the world is falling short by more than $4 trillion annually to provide the resources developing countries need to deliver on these promises by 2030.