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Finance and What are the three main What are the three Please, share one investment challenges to the concreate measures example of a concreate mobilization and leverage of that should be taken by action that can be public and private finance governments and replicated/ scaled up to and investment to achieve stakeholders to mobilize and leverage SDG 7 and carbon neutrality? mobilize and leverage p. [...] Key messages and recommendations Below follows some of the main messages presented by stakeholders in the e-consultation: • Sustainable access to energy and the targets supported by the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 of the 2030 Agenda can be achieved only through strong investment and the mobilization of financial planning. [...] Stakeholders recommended setting up “Just Transition” plans at national level, carried out by governments, employers, workers and other relevant stakeholders, in order to plan and manage the end of fossil fuel exploration and production in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and to guarantee access to affordable clean energy to all segments of society. [...] Stakeholders also reminded the connection between climate and human rights and the need for rapid, large-scale development and deployment of sustainable energy to avoid harm to biodiversity and facilitate the provision of nature-based solutions to climate change (SDGs 14 and 15). [...] Stakeholders highlighted inadequate policies, discrepancy between climate goals and state policies and high investment risks as the main challenges for the mobilization and leverage of public and private finance and investment to achieve SDG 7 and carbon neutrality.