Challenges of financing human and sustainable development

Accelerating progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will serve to advance human development and also to lay a solid foundation for the pursuance of sustainable development goals after 2015. But considerable financing challenges are to be overcome to address environmental degradation and secure sustainable energy and much of these are additional to those of achieving the MDGs. Most developing countries will require a huge amount of upfront investment in order to realize sustainable development goals.

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