{"id":6002,"date":"2019-10-17T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"business-leaders-join-un-to-rev-up-sustainable-development-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/17\/business-leaders-join-un-to-rev-up-sustainable-development-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Leaders Join UN To Rev Up Sustainable Development Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Global Investors for Sustainable Development\nAlliance&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/esa\/ffd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GISD-Background.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(GISD),<\/a>&nbsp;a\nUN-supported&nbsp;coalition&nbsp;of 30 business leaders,&nbsp;works\nto&nbsp;provide&nbsp;decisive leadership in mobilizing resources for\nsustainable development, with the core objective being&nbsp;to\nidentify&nbsp;incentives for long-term&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;investments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe face widening inequality, increased devastation from\nconflicts and disasters and a rapidly warming Earth. These leaders have seized\nour sense of urgency, recognizing that our pace must be at a run, not a\ncrawl\u201d,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a>&nbsp;told\nbusiness leaders.&nbsp;\u201cThey are committing to cooperate across borders, across\nfinancial sectors and even with their competitors, because it is both ethical\nand good business sense to invest in sustainable development for all people on\na healthy planet.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/10\/1049411\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News The Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance&nbsp;(GISD),&nbsp;a UN-supported&nbsp;coalition&nbsp;of 30 business leaders,&nbsp;works to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;decisive leadership in mobilizing resources for sustainable development, with the core objective being&nbsp;to identify&nbsp;incentives for long-term&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;investments.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}