The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Scottish Government-backed Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), with the New York Declaration on Forests Global Platform, will bring together government officials, financial institutions, consumer goods corporations, supply chain intermediaries and conservation organizations for a two-day ‘Finance for Nature Global Summit’. The Summit aims to develop financial solutions that drive socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable development and explore a new investment paradigm aligned with the SDGs.

The Summit is part of a two-year programme of collaboration between UNDP and Scottish Government aimed at mobilizing private capital for the SDGs.

dates: 20-21 May 2019
location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
www: https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/announcements/2019/green-finance-leaders-convene-to-develop-financial-solutions-for.html