Overview, World Investment Plan, Catalysing a Global Investment Boom
Force for Good engaged with partners during UNGA and Climate week on its report on what it takes for capital to unlock the investment opportunities across the world that arise from the transition to the information era. The geopolitical, political, social, economic, security and environmental impacts of this transition and the investments required were explored with relationships leading up to and during the week, including the Carnegie Council, Pvblic, the Club de Madrid, UNFCCC, ESG News and many others.
Pvblic, Families for Sustainable Development (FOSD)
The program brought together Heads of Government, Ministers, UN Officials, Senior Executives, and stakeholder partners, with keynote interventions from country, private and individual leaders. This collective engagement underscored the transformative potential of cross-sector partnerships, and your participation helped make this a milestone gathering for the FOSD platform. Pvblic Foundation is a global foundation building systems, partnerships, and platforms that drive sustainable development, resilience, and institutional innovation across the world, founded and chaired by Sergio Da Cordoba. The Family Offices for Sustainable Development (FOSD) is an initiative launched by PVBLIC Foundation, the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTF), and the UN Office for Partnerships (UNOP) and supported by stakeholders across the United Nations system.
Reimagining Global Public Investment— A New Mandate for Capital and Cooperation
Host: Club de Madrid and Pvblic, FOSD
Moderator: Ketan Patel, Chairman, Force for Good
The world is facing an unprecedented convergence of global challenges, from environmental degradation and pandemics to mounting inequality, displacement, and fragile infrastructure. As multilateral institutions and governments contend with rising needs and shrinking budgets, there is an urgent call to rethink how we fund the global commons and who has a seat at the table. Global Public Investment (GPI) offers a transformative new framework rooted in shared responsibility, collective benefit, and inclusive governance. It reimagines development financing as a universal model where all contribute, all benefit, and all decide. Yet, to truly scale this model in a multipolar and interdependent world, we must expand the stakeholder base. This panel examined how GPI can evolve to integrate family offices and private capital as trusted partners in financing the global public good.
Panel:
Moderator: Ketan Patel, Chairman, Force for Good.
Speakers:
Danilo Türk, former President of Slovenia (2007-2012) and President of Club de Madrid
Mari Kiviniemi, former Prime Minister of Finland (2010 to 2011), Member of Club de Madrid, OECD
Simon Reid-Henry, Steering Committee member, Global Public Investment Network and Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo
The World Investment Plan: Catalysing a Global Boom for Good
Host: Pvblic, FOSD
Speaker: Ketan Patel, Chairman of Force for Good
Force for Good’s latest report The World Investment Plan: Building the Transition to a Secure, Sustainable and Superior Future warns that the world is on a perilous trajectory, with turbulence from wars, climate shocks, technological disruption, migration and social unrest reflecting a deeper civilisational shift from the Industrial to the Information Age. Without bold intervention, democracy, already back to levels prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, risks backsliding further amid deepening systemic instability, stalled human progress, and escalating climate disasters. The report sets out a US$125 trillion World Investment Plan through 2035, 98% suitable for profitable private capital participation, building infrastructure, climate defences, connectivity, healthcare, education and housing, with AI at scale driving prosperity and resilience. Re-engineering risk, building enterprise systems globally and incorporating nature in asset pricing are key levers to unlock a positive future and drive constructive collaboration and competition.
Metacrisis, Transition Between Era, Power Shifts and Investing in a Peaceful Transition
Host: ESG News, Nest Climate Campus, NY
Interviewer: Matt Bird, Founder, Chairman, ESG
Interviewee: Ketan Patel, Chairman, Force for Good
This wide-ranging discussion covered geopolitical, power and investment. The backdrop was today’s metacrisis of turbulence from wars, climate shocks, technological disruption, migration, and social unrest are part of a deeper civilisational shift from the Industrial to the Information Age. The assertion was that without bold intervention, the world risks systemic instability, stalled human progress, and escalating climate disaster. The ongoing restructuring of world power was discussed, with American Hegemony evidencing material markers of change, wars eroding rules and concentrations of financial wealth and rising economic inequality. ESG News is a media platform that aims to simplify the complex world of ESG, sustainable finance, and responsible business for professionals around the globe, founded by Matt Bird, CEO and editor-in-chief.