SDG9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts forward a broad and ambitious agenda for global action on sustainable development. The scale and ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals require innovation in development and innovation for development.
To achieve the Goals by 2030, new modalities for development are required, including bringing innovation into the foreground of development projects.
As the second most populated country in the world, urbanization in India is taking place at a high rate. As a result, the country is dealing with a great housing shortage. Twenty five per cent of the population do not have dwellings of their own, accounting for a shortage of almost sixty million units. Hence, building constructions play a vital role to meet such demand.
Sugarcane production is an important activity and a major employer in the African agriculture, with an estimated six million people deriving their livelihood from the sugar industry. Given these contributions, any factor affecting the industry has an impact on the overall economy. With a relatively low adaptive capacity and poor forecasting systems and mitigation strategies, sugarcane farming is anticipated to be significantly impacted by climate change, just like other agricultural sectors, especially in developing countries.
Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific addresses the theme of the 5th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development and the 2018 session of the high-level political forum on sustainable development and supports national and regional implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Global Opportunity Explorer is a joint project of Sustainia, DNV GL and the UN Global Compact, created on the conviction that the SDGs offer a myriad of business opportunities with great value to companies, society and the environment. Aside from mapping a world of cutting-edge innovation and new markets, the Explorer aims to help business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors connect with new partners, projects and markets to foster more partnerships for the SDGs and a greener and fairer world by 2030.
With Thinking Circular, we are constructing a multiverse for green progress, in which we unleash the potential of green innovation. Through the Circular Economy and the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) design principle, we support economics, science and politics in becoming part of a sustainable society. Consulting, networking, partners, political classification, events, expert tips, influencers, speakers – all of these and much more are offered by Thinking Circular. This is where ideas evolve for safeguarding the future: Green innovations are devised and put into practice.
This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change – that can effectively direct urban development towards ambitious sustainability and climate goals. We will connect the key trends of urbanization, decarbonisation and sustainability. We will examine visions, experiments and innovations in urban areas.
Get an introduction to the topic of urban sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals in this mini-series course. This course is offered free of charge by the SDG Academy.
Cities are a core component of the UN’s 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. This free mini-series from the SDG Academy is a companion piece to its full-length Sustainable Cities course and also serves as a brief introduction to the topic of urban sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals.