Additionally, through the Paris Climate Agreement, governments have committed to strengthening the global response to climate change. However, it is now clear that current policies are not delivering the economic step-change needed if we are to achieve the SDGs.

The next annual United Nations Financing for Development (FfD) Forum - a key space for UN member governments to draw conclusions and agree further actions to reform the global financial and economic system in order to meet the ambition of the SDGs - will take place in April 2018. This paper sets out Eurodad's position on current FfD challenges, proposes a limited number of concrete reforms, and suggests key tests that the 2018 Forum must meet if it is to be regarded a success.