How Private Investments are Advancing the SDGs

The key takeaway regarding the SDGs, blended/social finance and private investments is that investments alone cannot achieve the SDGs by 2030. Rather, it’s a combination of governments, private stakeholders, and other parties that will jointly bring these goals into fruition. Private investments tend to target some of the key themes of reducing poverty and sustainable infrastructure, but also put less emphasis on a number of the goals not related to these overarching themes. While private investments are playing a role in the SDGs, the report also highlights where further emphasis needs to be placed to achieve sustainable solutions for the future, and where some of that funding gap needs to be focused on in the years to come.

Here at RENEW, we are still doing our part to help push these goals forward, and we believe that we are actively doing work that supports 15 of the 17 goals, with a large amount of resources going towards Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) and Goal 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). It could be said that the SDGs are baked into the very core of RENEW’s business model and the portfolio companies in which RENEW and the IAN invest. In our Third Annual Impact Report, we take a deeper dive into our direct impact with the SDGs and explain how RENEW and the Impact Angel Network are doing our part to make these goals a reality. Even though these goals can seem lofty, big changes do not happen without big dreams and even bigger goals to get you there.