SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE COVID-19 CRISIS

Bertrand BADRÉ * Founding Partner, Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital; former Managing Director, World Bank. Contact: bertandbadre05@gmail.com.

Five years after the solemn commitments of 2015 in Addis Ababa on financing for development, in New York on sustainable development objectives and in Paris on climate, the result is not there. The Covid-19, without being caused by a defect in capitalism or a crisis of globalisation, has set the debate in new terms. Will we be able, despite the brutal shock we are facing, to live up to the ambitions that have been set? Will we be able, despite or perhaps thanks to adversity, to make the serious choice of an inclusive and resilient model? Under what conditions? This is the subject of the book I am publishing this autumn entitled Do we (seriously) want to change the world? (Editions Mame), of which I am sharing a few excerpts below.