The Global Pandemic 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM EDT Topic: Building Forward Better: A Financial Perspective on Impact Economy
Title: Massive Solutions – Resources Toward SDGs
Massoud Ghandchi, Co-Director of Urban + Future
Introduction
As human species we are all have a shared responsibility for the future of our planet to come together, shake hands, and work as one team to build better lives for people, our children and the planet. The level of consciousness on these issues is increasing as social media has exploded our ability to communicate widely about social injustices enriching our networks to create real change to ultimately build a better future together.
Today, people better understand the global challenges the world is facing, such as the climate change, food insecurity, affordability, biodiversity loss and conflict. Local challenges have now become global with the invention and advancement of technology and new communication tools that have enabled sharing of information at a heartbeat. People are becoming increasingly more empowered to see, hear, understand, and empathise with people that are of thousands of miles away to better understand what their situation is and the challenges that they are facing. We must make every effort to create a better world by persistently grappling with these issues and pursuing relentlessly to come up with solutions.
Although there are individuals who work to build things for self-benefit not for the benefit of the society. but we can use smart innovations to form an attractive platform that is based on reciprocity and achieving common goals and benefits and create a win-win approach.
There are people are naturally motivated and inclined to support the realization of Sustainable Development Goals by collaborating with others for the benefit of the society because they believe in the concept of sustainability and they are committed to it, and they are successful in generating sustainable resources for the future. However, there are also those who wish to support the SDGs because they see an opportunity from a financial perspective; to generate income – this is not wrong, but a amazing opportunity to accelerate increasing global prosperity.
Massive solutions-resources is an extraordinary concept that could have everyone on the planet to collaborate together to work through the global issues from the lens of a creative and sustainable finance. There are massive untapped resources which exist in cities and countries that are waiting to be utilized and we must work with those resources,
We need to try creating an inclusive model that can embrace everyone with, different ideologies, beliefs, and a variety of mandates. Only through this kind of collaborative effort, we will be able to create massive solutions to address issues both financially and non-financially for the benefit of the entire world.
Massive solutions-resources is a global financial framework developed by Urban + Future to encourage people to come together to form a global platform and develop solutions that are inclusive and leave no one behind.
Still there are many opportunities present, by setting global targets and goals, inspires and encourages people to get together to analyze and work together towards finding solutions to achieve the goals. However, this requires sympathy to understand what these goals are meant to achieve which is to bring peace and prosperity to everyone.
We need to ask ourselves as to how we need to collaborate and based on what structure and what degree of flexibility. In the initiatives of Urban + Future, we diligently work to create a cohesion of the differences for the capacity building for the future.
In this process we will consider forming an inclusive financial platform to work with partners at the individual level. There are huge opportunities which can be found in the cities and countries that are ready for the individuals. Great synergy can come from Collaborating with them in a manner that is mutually benefiting to together combine the strengths to build a better future for the globe and create tools that could have grand impact on realizing the Sustainable Development Goals.
I am very glad to participate at the 3rd Urban Economy Forum. I believe that we need to collaborate and advocate our song as a global voice in the path to realize the SDGs. Please join us and participate.