Focus 2019 Ideas and innovation

Read the articles selected for the Sustainable Development Festival 2019

SDG 9

UNDP Strategic Plan, 2018 -2021

The digital era marks a great progress on many fronts of Sustainable Development. Development is a goal in itself, which involves the positive role of the new technologies as long as we maintain firm the principle of living no one behind, at the heart of this Strategic Plan.

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SDGs 9,5

Sustainable Connectivity. Closing the Gender Gap in Infrastructure

Source: http://www.oecd.org

A sustainable infrastructure is essential to many aspects of sustainable development. This paper highlights its role in increasing labour force participation by women, if taking into account the needs of both working women and children, as well as the different impacts infrastructures have on other vulnerable groups.

SDG 9

WIPO Technology Trends: Artificial Intelligence

Source: https://www.wipo.int

This report intend to reply to the concerns about the nature and the impact of the AI with a set of data and facts useful for a correct understanding of this revolution happened in our daily life and which is crucial to harness all its benefits.

SDGs 17, 9

Financing Climate Futures

Source: oecd.org

Infrastructures are the network of the systemic change required for a clean future. Innovation, collaboration of public and private sectors, international cooperation, governative incentives, a resilient finance and stronger local powers are in the agenda for a clean and resilient future.

SDG 17

World Economic Situation Prospects

Source: https://www.un.org

International cooperation and governance are crucial for ensuring well-functioning markets, resolving disagreements and guaranteeing stability in presence of trade tensions and macroeconomic global imbalances. Strenghtening multilateralism is crucial for advancing sustainable development.

SDGs 17, 13, 8

A closer look at Water and GHG emissions disclosure

Source: GRI

The impact of business on global issues like climate change and human rights influences the finance. This report wants to help to develop standards on sustainability reporting, and from this point credibility and trust by the investitors , what makes possible a more sustainable economy and world.

SDG 11

Science and the Future of Cities

Source: Nature Sustainability

The urbanization challenges raised by the rapidly expanding urban areas need to develop an adequate urban science to harness cities’ capacity for innovation through a science-policy collaboration at the local level and a tailored multilateral system to implement the 2030 Agenda.

SDGs 11, 13

Financing a resilient urban future

Source: World Bank

A city is “a system of systems” that individuate different funding sources, less or more dependent on governmental transfers or development assistance. The World Bank’s City Resilience Program intends to help local govenments to access to public finance supporting climate resilience with a more holistic approach.

SDGs 11,13,10

Financing climate objectives in cities and regions to deliver sustainable and inclusive growth

Source: oecd.org

Cities and regions are the major contributors to spending related to climate mitigation and adaptation, and given that climate change exacerbates the effects of structural inequalities in cities, investments in low-emission urban infrastructure have positive impacts on vulnerable populations.

SDGs 11, 9

Do transportation network companies decrease or increase congestion?

By Gregory D. Erhardt, Sneha Roy etc.

Source: Science, 8 May

Despite their potential to reduce the use of private cars, this research shows on the base of reliable data that in San Francisco transportation network companies (TNCs) have increased traffic congestion, and suggests how to integrate TNCs into the existing transportation networks.

SDGs 2, 9

The state of world’s biodiversity for food and agriculture

Source: http://www.fao.org

This report delivers information about the management of biodiversity, with the intent to strengthen the knowledge of its importance in echosystems and in the support to food safety and nutrition, and to translate this knowledge in a wide action, able to reach the consumers’ preferences and influence markets.

SDG 2

Global Nutrition Report

Source: asvis.it

More and better data are crucial to know and face a plague which still afflicts the world, not only the poorer countries, in spite of the progresses made. The fight to malnutrition is an SDG of the outmost importance, for its drammatical and trasversal consequences.

SDGs 2, 9, 12

Nitrogen in the environment

By Carly J. Stevens

Source: Science, 8 February

Nitrogen is an abundant element on Earth and is an essential nutrient for all forms of life. Its amount in the environment has increased in excess in the rich world, due to the production of food. Technological improvements in the agriculture and industry can help regulate its natural fixation in the air, water and soils.

SDGs 2, 9

Nature-based Solutions for agricultural water management and food security

Source: http://www.fao.org

Water is fundamental for food to grow, but the development of hydric infrastructures can compromise ecosystems. Nature-based solutions, according to transdisciplinary principles nurtured with scientific, case-specific knowledge are the tools of a sustainable and efficient agriculture.

SDGs 9, 12, 2

The promise and perils of synthetic biology

Source: The Economist, 4 April

Synthetic biology is a revolution in the living world, which will bring great transformations in the way we produce, consume and in the economic relations. If we want to turn this shift into better and in particular towards environmental goals we have to take lessons from the past.

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SDG 12

GEO6: Global Environmental Outlook

Source: UN Environment 2019

The sixth Global Environmental Outlook follows a series of independent papers on the environmental condition, highlighting the environmental fundament of human health, society and activity, stressed by unsustainable models of production and consumption.

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