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‘Blended Finance’ Could Lift Sustainable Development by $1 Trillion

  • Sustainable development Goals have a $2-3 trillion funding gap
  • ‘Blended finance’ is a mix of public and private capital
A panel session on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

A panel session on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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An additional $1 trillion could be found for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals if development banks focus on making investments digestible for private pools of capital.

That’s according to a report by the Blended Finance Taskforce released Tuesday at the annual World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland. The mix of public and private capital is dubbed “blended finance.”