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Sep 11, 2026
Gaetano CavalieriGUEST
And I can continue.
Gaetano CavalieriGUEST
till all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the ESGs.
Gaetano CavalieriGUEST
ESGs.
Gaetano CavalieriGUEST
S means social.
Mariana MazzucatoGUEST
In a world where we talk about goals constantly, where we even have the SDGs that every country signed up to, are we even capable of getting any closer to achieving those goals? And I say no, by design, not by coincidence.
Bethany McLeanHOST
[upbeat music] I'm Bethany McLean.
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Did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether greed's a good idea?
Luigi ZingalesHOST
How do you stay away from that?
Mariana MazzucatoGUEST
That's such a good point, 'cause that's also why I wrote the book, to be honest, I'm gonna keep saying that for every question you ask, to call out those who are common good washing, right? This word actually means everything and nothing.
Mariana MazzucatoGUEST
So the idea of having a compass to break down the common good into these five principles, these elements, are supposed to hold anyone, whether it's businesses who show up in Davos and talk about a purpose-oriented business or governments who say they're interested in SDGs or any goals to hold them accountable.
Mariana MazzucatoGUEST
One is even being very clear on what you're trying to do.
Mariana MazzucatoGUEST
There's so much vagueness.
David PennHOST
And it's called the West Central Initiative.
David PennHOST
And its mission is to operationalize, among its missions, one of its core missions is to operationalize the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, in like northern Minnesota.
David PennHOST
Like when we drive up there, we go up to some places for politics, crew, where when we're driving home, we're looking for deer in the road.
David PennHOST
We want to make it back without an incident.
Véronique HerminieGUEST
So in that way, I want to leave that legacy behind at the end of my term, that I've done something for the youth of Seychelles.
Véronique HerminieGUEST
So my focus for the five years is the top five sustainable development goals, of which one is gender equality.
Véronique HerminieGUEST
And I want to make sure that the initiatives that I come up with not only target those five SDGs, but also all the different groups, amongst which are the boys and girls of Seychelles.
Vickram BahlHOST
But give me specifics.
Tara Sabra CollierGUEST
I'm quite keen to see, um, more listed solutions that are going deeper, um, into impact, because it's been really hard as I've tried to align my own investments, uh, with my ethos to find products that are actually conflict-free, um, that are not contributing to oppression.
Tara Sabra CollierGUEST
Those products certainly exist, and some of the organizations that I'm affiliated with back wonderful propositions in public markets that are not just conflict-free, but are also advancing the UN sustainable development goals.
Tara Sabra CollierGUEST
But we need a wider array of such products.
Tara Sabra CollierGUEST
And then of course, I would invest in private markets and some of the climate innovations, but across managers, uh, in emerging and, quote-unquote, "developed markets," but particularly in a gender diverse way.
Jacqueline CorbelliGUEST
And it coincided with the UN's work on the Millennium Development Goals.
Jacqueline CorbelliGUEST
And as we started to reach the end of that time frame, the Sustainable Development Goals came to be.
Jacqueline CorbelliGUEST
And it dovetailed with when Pope Francis became the Pope, and his whole focus was on poverty and sustainability, people and planet.
Jacqueline CorbelliGUEST
And so we were invited to advise him, given all of our firsthand experience with poverty across the continent.
Laurie SpenglerGUEST
The alignment proposition still holds.
Scott ArnellHOST
Now, the SDG loan fund is the public proof of that.
Scott ArnellHOST
Without touching on anything proprietary, what made that structure actually work?
Laurie SpenglerGUEST
I still hold it out, and we all do in the industry, I think, is one of the most efficient examples of the use of blending in that structure.
Laurie SpenglerGUEST
very smart capital structuring, but with a high degree or and, not but, and a high degree of efficiency in that structuring.
Laurie SpenglerGUEST
Sometimes we see structures that are not as ruthlessly efficient, but there's a different tactic, which is asking the question, what will it take to get the deal over the finish line? And I can give an example of that.
Laurie SpenglerGUEST
But I think just to speak about the SDG loan fund, I think the mobilization ratio in a 40 to 1 is quite extraordinary as a hallmark at a size and scale that I think gives confidence that institutional capital can be attracted to emerging market scenarios and investment propositions.
Scott ArnellHOST
But you've said that the thing that lets these deals reach real scale is that more complexity, it's radical simplicity.
Mel KHOST
It is.
Mel KHOST
And many mayors are captured in America already from whether it's the Bloomberg thing with the all the mayor's awards for the sustainable development goals.
Mel KHOST
Of course, Bloomberg all in on that, too.
Mel KHOST
Or they want the land management position.
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Mel KHOST
But you could go back to my book.
Mel KHOST
and look into the Nazis that were protected in Ukraine by Alan Dulles, it looks like, and some of them even folded into our State Department or our CIA by them.
Mel KHOST
But at the same time, there has been things going on in Ukraine that actually connect to the World Economic Forum and Agenda 2030 and the commitment Ukraine made to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Mel KHOST
As I explained to you, most of Ukraine, by the time this whole idea that we were protecting democracy was literally a money laundering, corrupt oligarch run one foot in Russia, one foot in America, one foot in, in Ukraine.
Dave RobbinsHOST
It is.
Dave RobbinsHOST
Of course, that would be, for example, Paris, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, carbon ledgers, digital IDs tied to green compliance.
Dave RobbinsHOST
And this is not Genesis 2 gardening here, right? I mean, this is World Government 101.
Dave RobbinsHOST
And that is Revelation 13, the infrastructure with a weather report for a preface.
speaker_1HOST
According to a McKinsey report cited in the text, there are actually one hundred and sixty distinct cases of AI being used specifically for social good.
speaker_2HOST
One hundred and sixty, spanning all the UN's sustainable development goals too.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah, it's brilliant.
speaker_1HOST
There's this one standout example from the sources about medical imaging.
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