SDG9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
This knowledge product explains the rationale and procedures for incorporating allowances for climate change in detailed engineering design, with a focus on credible adjustments to extreme rainfall and to mean and high-end sea-level rise.
The government of Mexico has set a new tone in domestic political discussions by bringing forward an ambitious social and economic development agenda – putting development ambitions and people of all social and economic backgrounds in the centre of the debate.
Climate Interactive is an independent, not-for-profit think-tank that grew out of MIT Sloan in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Based on a long tradition of system dynamics modeling, their simulations and insights help people see connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address climate change, inequity, and related issues like energy, health, and food.
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In collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), TechConnect Ventures is seeking disruptive technologies with the long-term potential to replace the current state-of-the-art in Large Power Transformers for power generation by reducing the overall transformer size and improving ease of replacement.
Responses are invited from individuals and organizations around the world that describe novel concepts, emerging technologies and/or breakthrough capabilities and solutions to address this challenge.
Infrastructure commonly refers to physical facilities that provide the building blocks of a functioning society, including but not limited to transportation networks and structures, buildings and cities, water and waste-related networks and facilities, energy networks and plants, and communications networks and facilities.
This webinar discusses the SuRe® Standard and ways to ensure that infrastructure investments drive sustainable and resilient pathways to intergenerational equity in a time of global crisis.
This discussion is an effort to foster global dialogue on the next steps to recover from the Pandemic. We also want to highlight the best practices from local communities to reimagine 'the new normal' in the recovery process.
This discussion is an effort to foster global dialogue on the next steps to recover from the Pandemic. We also want to highlight the best practices from local communities to reimagine 'the new normal' in the recovery process.
World’s Leading experts will be joining us from diverse backgrounds including Academia, International Civil Service, Private Sector, Healthcare, Public Service, Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Services, Scientific Community and Youth Community Leadership.
Climate Bonds Initiative invites you to the online discussion on financing options for sustainable transport infrastructure in cities.
You are invited to join the Virtual Policy Dialogue for North and Central Asia: Sustainable Economies in the Aftermath of COVID-19 - Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2020, which will take place on Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 13:00 – 14:30 hours Almaty time (14:00 – 15:30 for Bangkok, GMT+6).