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The key messages from the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report are more than ever crucial following the COVID19 pandemic

Jean-Paul Moatti Emeritus Professor Aix-Marseille University June 2nd , 2020 CLORA Webinar

The GSDR Independent Group of Scientists (IGS)

Ernest Foli Parfait Ekoundou- Enyegue Eeva Furman Amanda Glassman Gonzalo Hernández Licona Eun Mee Kim Wolfgang Lutz Peter Messerli Jean-Paul Moatti Endah Murniningtyas Katherine Richardson Muhammad Saidam David Smith Jurgis Staniskis Jean-Pascal van Ypersele

• It is time to sound the alarm
• Better focus on the arrows than on the

boxes

• Mobilize the billions and shift the trillions
• Promote sustainability science

GSDR 2019 Key Messages

Impact of COVID19 on extreme poverty (UNDP)

40/60 million additional people in extreme poverty

Increased inequalities due to the pandemic

Multidimensional impact of the pandemic on SDGs

Differential epidemiological and economic impacts of COVID19

Some paradoxical pandemic im impacts

• Advanced countries have been more hardly hit

(for both health and economic impacts)

• But long term recovery will be more difficult in

LIC, LMIC ans SIDS

% changes in output (IMF projections) 2019 2020 2021 World Output + 2.9

• 3.0

+ 5.8 Advanced Economies + 1.7

• 6.1

+ 4.5 Eurozone + 1.2

• 7.5

+ 4.7 Emerging and Developing Economies + 3.7

• 1.0

+ 6.6 South-East Asia + 5.5 + 1.0 + 8.5 Sub-Saharan Africa + 3.1

• 1.6

+ 4.1

Implementation of Agenda 2030 : Mobilizing the billions, Shifting the trillions

• Total world investment in 2019 (IMF) =

22.8 trillion US$ 11.5 in advanced economies 11.3 in emerging and developing economies

• Foreign Direct Investment in 2018

(UNCTAD) = 1.43 trillion US$ 0.67 in developing countries

• Total ODA (OECD/DAC) in 2018 =

0.15 trillion US $

• Public Development Finance Institutions

Investment in 2018 = 1.9 trillion US$

• Annual funding gap until 2030 for

sustainable development in developing countries (UNDP) = 2.5 trillion US$

• World total subsidies for fossil fuels in

2018 (IMF)= 400 billion (direct)/ 5.3 trillion (indirect)US $

• 2015 annual commitments of advanced

countries for climate finance toward developing countries = 0.1 trillion US$

• Total volume of Exchange-trading funds =

3.5 trillion US$

• Total assets of world private finance =

413 trillion US$

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6 Entry points (nexus) for sustainable change > Ticking 169 boxes

Post-COVID19 Recovery ry : : which alternative for SDGs ?

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An Emerging Field  A Major Need for Global South

• Promoting « Sustainability Science »

Pro romoting sustainability scie ience & in innovation

• “The

attempt, by sustainability science, to understand the integrated “whole” of planetary and human systems requires cooperation between scientific, social and economic disciplines, public and private sectors, academia and government. In short it requires a massive global cooperative effort and one major task of sustainability science is to assist integrated cross-disciplinary coordination” US NAAS, 2001

a) Understanding complex causal chains b) Understanding interactions (-/+) between policies for individual SDGs c) Solution and innovation

• riented

including “reverse innovation” d) Participatory sciences e) SDGs as the unique framework for science/policy interface

Priority for sustainability science : strengthening scientific capacities and expertise in developing countries, in particular in Africa

Le GSDR: feuille de route de l’interface science/politique d’ici 2030

• https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/gsdr2019