Construction of the EU’s first net-positive emissions building has begun in Seville, Spain. It will go beyond carbon neutrality by offsetting CO₂ from the atmosphere, mainly through generating solar energy that far exceeds its own operational needs. It will take around 2 years to complete.
This is where the Sevilla platform for action (SPA) Between – a major step to start implementing the Seville agreement without delay.
It is More than 130 concrete actions To support the renewed global funding framework that world leaders have just adopted The International Conference.
They will help countries mobilize resources for an ODD investment thrust, to strengthen the development capacity of developing countries, to help combat the sustainable development debt crisis and take measures to improve the system by which the developing world can borrow money for national investment without the paralyzing debt charges.
The launch of the platform, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, underlined the urgency of collective action saying that the platform represents “A critical opportunity to restore confidence in multilateralism and deliver tangible funding. “”
UN Secretary General António Guterres underlined the importance of the spa as a catalyst for joint action and delivery.
In a divided world, it is “a Springboard to a fairer, inclusive and lasting world for all countries“He said.
Speaking earlier at the press conference for the hundreds of journalists here in Seville, he said that the absence of the United States that left negotiations earlier this month was a challenge, but there are still means of collecting the necessary funds: “It is a question of political will.”
This can be done if managers are willing to take the necessary measures such as work through multilateral development banks and carbon taxes, for example.
“” Having the United States on board would be excellent, but it can be done anyway by those who are ready to do so.
“I have a clear message to the powerful,” continued the UN chief. “” It is better to direct the reform of the system now than to wait and ultimately undergo resistance later when power relations change.
“And I believe that the reforms proposed in Sevilla in accordance with the work that has been done in the Future summit are reforms that are absolutely necessary for both developing countries and in developed countries. »»
Following the opening remarks, the interventions have shown a strong political commitment to start implementing the historic financing agreement.
Notable initiatives include a global center for debts for development at the World Bank and an alliance of the debt clause on break – defended by Spain and a coalition of partners.
Another essential part of the transformation of words in Seville into action on the field is to mobilize the business world.
Business managers launched an urgent call on Monday to unlock more private capital when opening International Commercial Forum Monday.
António Guterres said to the delegates: “Development is everyone’s business”, emphasizing the essential role of the private sector alongside public institutions in the realization of SDGs.
Seville in southern Spain is the place of FFD4.
A new press release from the Conference Business Management Committee – co -chaired by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and global investors for sustainable development (GISD) – describes five priority areas for action:
The press release completes the newly approved agreement by Seville and business leaders described the moment as a pivot. “Private finances are essential to fill the world gap,” said José Viñals, co -president of Gisd.
At the Forum, developing countries highlight more than a billion dollars in projects invested in sectors, including energy, agriculture and digital infrastructure.
“The emphasis must now be put on action,” said Li Junhua, economic chief and secretary of the UN conference.
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António Guterres has appealed to Clarion, noting that sustainable development powered by international cooperation, is now confronted with “massive opposite winds”.
Approach the opening session of 4th Development financing conference (FFD4) In hot cooking Seville, Spain – lounging with record temperatures of June – the Secretary general Multilateralism itself also feels heat, while confidence between nations and institutions collapse.
The world is on fire, shaken by inequalities, climate chaos and raging conflicts: “Funding is the engine of development and at the moment, this motor spans“He said at the conference, which have attended more than 50 world leaders, more than 150 nations and around 15,000 delegates.
“While we meet, the 2030 agenda For sustainable development – Our global promise to transform our world for a better and fairer future – is in danger. “”
Some two -thirds of the ambitious Sustainable development objectives (ODD) The objectives agreed in 2015 are considerably off track – hence the amazing investments of 4 billions of dollars necessary to overthrow it.
“We are here in Seville to change CAP. To repair and revise the development engine to accelerate investments at scale and at the speed required, ”said Mr. Guterres.
He described the result known as Seville engagement Adopted on Monday-without the United States which has withdrawn from the process earlier this month-as a “global promise” to low-income nations to raise them on a development scale.
The current affordability and development crisis is “a crisis of people,” he continued, which leaves hungry families, non-vaccinated children and girls left out of education.
“This conference does not concern charity. It is a question of restoring justice and facilitating the ability of all people to live in dignity, “said Mr. Guterres.
“” This conference is not a matter of money – these are investments in the future that we want to build together. “”
King Felipe of Spain spoke just before the official opening, telling the delegates that the Multicultural City of Seville welcomes the world “with open arms”.
He said that a new roadmap would emerge which is based on what is “concrete and tangible and usable”.
The conference must be a success, because Cooperation is one of our fundamental pillars of the multilateral world and “the ultimate achievement mode of values that support it – Especially at this particular moment in history when many certainties are based and many fears and uncertainties take shape. “”
The Spanish president Pedro Sánchez told the delegates “Our time is now and our place is there. Millions of lives will depend on the choices made in Seville and in the future.
We must choose “ambition rather than paralysis, solidarity on indifference and courage rather than convenience”, ” He continued, adding that the eyes of the world are in this room, to see what we are ready to do together and facing this historical challenge, we must prove our value. »»
Seville was “the New York of 16th Century ”In diplomatic terms, he told delegates – and a cradle of globalism – we must all make this justice inherited today.
Secretary General of the Conference, Li Junhua – which is in charge of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Desa) – said the week in Seville is a key moment to mobilize the resources necessary to build a fair, inclusive and sustainable future.
The United Nations effort to finance development has been anchored in multilateralism and solidarity – but today, the whole framework is under “deep stress”.
He said that sustainable development has never been so tested, but the pact made in Seville puts people at the center.
“” Seville is not a final point, it is a launch ramp for a new era of implementation, responsibility and solidarity. Undesa is ready to support all nations to translate commitment into international action, he said.
The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Philémon Yang, mainly told the delegates: “We need leadership to guide the world forward in the brighter future more prosperous for everyone, everywhere. “”
He said the SEVILLA’s executive will renew the global partnership for the decade in advance and will focus on a debt burden that paralyzes the developing world.
President of the UN Economic and social council Bob Rae said that confidence between countries should be reinforced because his absence “creates chaos”.
“Above all, I want to congratulate the States for having advanced the ambition, deepening the commitment between financial institutions.”
The week represents a real commitment to action, he said.
Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank group, said that the delegates ending poverty remain its key mission and that the sharp increase in the current population in developing countries requires resources “on an unprecedented scale and rhythm. “”
He said everyone knew that governments, philanthropies and institutions are unable to respond to each projection or promise – which is why the private sector is essential to the Seville agreement so that capital can circulate.
Banga added that in recent years bank reforms are to be a better partner in the private sector and government customers.
Improving response time, capital increase and growth systems is essential – but it takes much more to deliver for the next generation.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization, said the conference met at a time of unprecedented difficulty.
After decades of positive contributions, the global trade system has now been “seriously disrupted”, leaving exports so hampered by unilateral tariff measures and political uncertainty that the WTO has greatly degraded growth forecasts.
Other tariff obstacles on July 9 – the deadline established by the US administration – will only increase the contraction of world trade.
She recalled that the WTO pleaded for the least developed nations and in Africa in all the prices, ” We can therefore better integrate them into the global trading system, and not exclude them more. “”
She said that the Seville agreement rightly recognizes International trade as a development engine.
“We must therefore strengthen stability and predictability in world trade”, through several levels which can develop national resources through exports, she told delegates.
Nigel Clarke, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), called to expand the tax base, to create solid financial management systems, to coordinate support and to resolve debt more sustainably.
“Many countries continue to combat high interest costs,” he said, calling on the international community to improve debt restructuring processes.
Thanks to its development of capacity, the fund is equivalent to members to trace their own path and also provides financial support when they need it, he added.
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In an alert, the UN agency warned that it faces having to make “drastic cuts” to life-saving food assistance, which may “grind to a halt” in the Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya in the coming months as resources run out.
WFP noted that the situation for many Sudanese refugees is already dire, more than two years since war erupted between Sudan’s national army and paramilitary rebels.
“In Uganda, many vulnerable refugees are surviving on less than 500 calories a day” – less than a quarter of daily nutritional needs – as new arrivals strain refugee support systems, WFP said. In Chad, which hosts almost a quarter of the four million refugees who fled Sudan, food rations will be reduced in the coming months without new contributions.
Children are particularly vulnerable to sustained periods of hunger and malnutrition rates among young refugees in reception centres in Uganda and South Sudan have already breached emergency thresholds. According to WFP, refugees are already severely malnourished even before arriving in neighbouring countries to receive emergency assistance.
“This is a full-blown regional crisis that’s playing out in countries that already have extreme levels of food insecurity and high levels of conflict,” said Shaun Hughes, WFP Emergency Coordinator for the Sudan Regional Crisis.
“Millions of people who have fled Sudan depend wholly on support from WFP, but without additional funding we will be forced to make further cuts to food assistance. This will leave vulnerable families, and particularly children, at increasingly severe risk of hunger and malnutrition.”
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