2023 Roundup: New investments for SDGs, but still slow progress
While the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) remain on the radar of many major funders, progress was slow at best. In its 2022 Goalkeepers Report: The Future of Progress, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found little progress in meeting the 2030 deadline of achieving the SDGs, and called attention to the rise of maternal mortality rates. The Rockefeller Foundation maintained its focus on the climate change SDG and helped mobilize more than $795 million toward that goal. During the World Climate Action Summit (COP28) in Dubai, large philanthropic commitments were made to address climate change, including a three-year, $450 million pledge by Ballmer Group, the Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the High Tide, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, Larsen Lam Climate Change, Pisces, Quadrature Climate, Sequoia, and William and Flora Hewlett foundations to accelerate the phase-down of methane and other non-CO² super climate pollutants. But as a November report from the ClimateWorks Foundation found, total foundation funding for climate change mitigation slowed between 2021 and 2022.
Here are some of the top stories from 2023:
$450 million pledged to phase-down of non-CO² super climate pollutants
(12/05/2023)
Growth of funding to address climate change slowed in 2022
(11/04/2023)
Gates commits $200 million for family planning, health access
(9/22/2023)
Gates Foundation report finds slowed progress on maternal health SDG
(9/14/2023)
Rockefeller Foundation helped mobilize nearly $800 million to SDG fund
(7/27/2023)
Gates, OSF, Rockefeller award $2.78 million for MDB innovations
(6/26/2023)
Gates, OSF, Rockefeller grants to spur SDGs, Paris Agreement financing
(4/19/2023)
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