Strengthening access to long-term financing for sustainable development in cities and worldwide

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) is pleased to invite you to Strengthening Access to Long-Term Financing for Sustainable Development in Cities and Worldwide, a high-level event at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris on 21 June 2023. 

Hosted by the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and organized by the SDSN and the City of Paris, this event – affiliated with the Paris Summit for a New Global Financial Pact – aims to provide key contributions to this year’s international agenda about long-term financing for sustainable development, particularly how to strengthen international financing for achieving the SDGs in cities and across the world.

The event will feature the launch of a new Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance and the release of the 2023 Sustainable Development Report – which tracks the SDG performance of all UN Member States every year. The following speakers are already confirmed, and many other high-level speakers will be confirmed in the coming weeks:

• Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
• Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
• Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
• Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer, the French Development Agency (AFD)
• María del Pilar Garrido Gonzalo, Director for Development Co-operation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Professor, Independent University Bangladesh
• Naoko Ishii, Director, Center for Global Commons, University of Tokyo
• Simona Marinescu, UN Senior Advisor on Financing and Development for SIDS
• Sameh Wahba, Regional Director for Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank

Kindly register using the web link to join the event in person, in Paris, from 1:30-6:30 p.m. CEST on 21 June 2023. Please bring a form of identification (ID). If you are unable to join in person, a live stream option will be available for virtual attendance.

Please register here.