Driving progress towards meeting the SDGs and tackling climate change are no easy tasks, but no global challenge is too daunting to address as long as we work together.
We are about to start the second annual Sustainable Development Impact Summit here in New York, amidst other high-level meetings going on in the city.
Follow it via #wefimpact on Twitter, and tune in shortly to watch the livestreamed sessions.
When and where will the Summit take place?
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of NYC:
“Climate change is a battle that can be won, but only with intense urgency, and there is not enough of that right now.”
“We will have to build whole new economy; one that offers people both a pay cheque and a planet they can live in.”
"Fossil fuels my friends belongs in only one place: stranded in the ground."
Klaus Schwab:
“Here we are more a do-tank than a think tank. Thinking has been done. Now we have to implement.”
Borge Brende, President, World Economic Forum:
“We can’t achieve the SDGs through the status quo or just some extra development assistance. We need a shift in model.”
“By matching private and public sectors in partnership, we can break down barriers to sustainable growth, which no sector can do on its own.”
"At the core, a lot of the SDGs are going to rely on access to information and education to really develop."
Welcome to the second day of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit, coming to you from New York City.
Coming up at 11:45 EST: Mobilizing Finance for Impact plenary session. Featured speakers include IMF managing director Christine Lagarde and Bank of America executive Anne Finucane. Tune in!
Scroll down for a snapshot of the first day of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit.
How can nations scale the financing needed to deliver their SDG and climate commitments?
That's the main question discussed at the session "Mobilizing Finance for Impact", moderated by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
Christine Lagarde opened the session with a strong stat: "14% of GDP is going to be needed in terms of fiscal space by low-income and developing countries in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals."
One of the speakers, Gyan-Baffour, Ghanaian development economist and politician, highlighted the importance of technology:
How do we embrace disruption? And how can technology help achieving the SDGs?
On stage discussing this at the session "Sustainable Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution" we have Director US News Gustau Alegret, Mozilla's Mitchell Baker, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson
Alex Gorsky, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Prime Minister of Netherlands Mark Rutte
At the Sustainability Development Impact Summit 2018, the World Economic Forum connected 100 world-leading coalitions to turn commitments into action on climate change and sustainable development.
That's a wrap for this year. Cheers from us, here in New York!