Financing the SDGs, Privatization, and Human Rights: A Discussion with Jeffrey Sachs and Philip Alston 2019 | Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment- CCSI | 30 January 2019 | Columbia Law School, Room TBD, 435 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027, USA

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to provide a roadmap for all governments to eliminate extreme poverty and achieve a range of other key economic and social goals by 2030. However, financing to achieve these objectives, including the eradication of extreme poverty, currently falls trillions of dollars short. Achievement of the SDGs is at risk unless current finance trajectories can be shifted. Jeffrey Sachs, the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the SDGs, and Philip Alston, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will discuss the relationship between finance, human rights, and the SDGs, including a focus on current trends toward privatization.