Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine, January 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our January edition. Inside, view conversations from our Global Leadership Summit, dedicated to the late friend of Ideagen, Steven J Tingus. This months covers features speakers from the 2023 Global Leadership Summit: Gretchen O'Hara, Dr. Sanjay Rishi, Graham Macmillan, Amir Dossal, Kevin Donnellan, Jean Accius, and Kristen Hicks.
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our January edition. Inside, view conversations from our Global Leadership Summit, dedicated to the late friend of Ideagen, Steven J Tingus.
This months covers features speakers from the 2023 Global Leadership Summit: Gretchen O'Hara, Dr. Sanjay Rishi, Graham Macmillan, Amir Dossal, Kevin Donnellan, Jean Accius, and Kristen Hicks.
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IMPORTANCE OF A GLOBAL<br />
MINDSET<br />
George Sifakis:<br />
Here we are in <strong>2023</strong> looking at that 7-year span to 2030, we are now at what<br />
someone referred to the other day in an interview at the midterm. what is the<br />
update that you can bring us on progress in helping achieve the global goals?<br />
Amir Dossal:<br />
George, you put it right. We are at the midterm mark, and I'm sorry to tell you that<br />
it might be a little gloomy. We are woefully behind on the SDGs when we<br />
launched them in 2015.<br />
Calculations in 2015 were saying that in order to achieve these 17 goals and 169<br />
targets, we needed about two and a half trillion worth of investments. Well, COVID<br />
happened, and guess what? We are now set back well before 2015. Today, the UN<br />
has calculated that the figure is between five and 7 trillion dollars worth of<br />
investments<br />
Now that's not easy, especially when we've not been able to achieve the original<br />
target of two and a half trillion. Nevertheless, I am very confident in the fact that<br />
the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres is attached as the<br />
architect of those goals.<br />
He has been leading a campaign to mobilize within the UN community on how to<br />
accelerate progress. But more importantly, he's said, we need to bring the private<br />
sector into this process. We need financiers to demonstrate the value proposition<br />
of investing in these goals. Otherwise, regrettably, we'll be struggling for many<br />
years to come.<br />
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