Responsible investment: The SDG conundrum

As policymakers worry about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, companies and asset managers are still working out how to make sense of them.

Some things change, some stay the same. The Davos World Economic Forum may have taken place in cyberspace this year instead of Switzerland, but the question of how to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was once again a key theme.

Set by the UN General Assembly in 2015, the SDGs cover three broad areas – economic, social and environmental development – and comprise 17 goals, further refined to 169 targets.

There has long been agreement that achieving them by the target date of 2030 will require action from both the public and private sectors, and the emerging consensus over the past year has been that policymakers need to do much more.

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