What will it take to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?
- Prosperity, People, Planet, Peace, Partnership
- Prosperity, Principles, Planet, Peace, Partnership
- Prevent, Preserve, Protect, Plan, Peace
- Poverty, Perseverance, Planning, Protection, Partnership
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- 15
- 10
- 12
- 305, 150
- 169, 304
- 304, 169
- 150, 305
- Feedback data
- High-end technology
- Defining key metrics
- Setting up milestones
- Digging deep into the earth to obtain fossil fuel.
- Moving the energy system from fossil fuels to renewables and other low carbon technologies.
- Chemically changing the composition of fossil fuels.
- Switching from electricity to fossil fuels.
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- Participate in public-private partnerships.
- Evade royalty payments for natural resources.
- Not depend on government partnerships.
- Businesses can't do much to help reach the SDGs.
- The UN Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC)
- The UN Global Compact
- The World Business Council on Sustainable Development
- The United States, East Asia, Western Europe
- The United Kingdom, The United States, East Asia
- Japan, Korea, London
- China, Japan, The United Kingdom
- Grant allocations to universities to strengthen their infrastructure.
- US Congress to allocate grants to universities to encourage research in the field of technology.
- US Congress to allocate to each state, land to build a local university which would play a role in the development of the local economy of that state.
- MDGs had a focus on developing countries where funding came from rich countries. All countries, developed or developing, are expected to work towards achieving SDGs.
- While MDGs were focused with only 17 goals and 169 targets, SDGs include 8 goals, 63 indicators and 21 targets.
- MDGs had a time span of 10 years. SDGs have a time span of 20 years.
- MDGs had no concrete role for the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), whereas SDGs have paid attention to this right from the framing stage itself with significant engagement of civil societies.
- The idea of the SDGs was launched in June 2012 at the Rio Earth Summit.
- MDGs were highly unsuccessful in bringing down the rate of poverty over a period of 25 years.
- Three basic pillars of the SDGs are economic development, social inclusion and environmental sustainability.
- We need global cooperation on technology research, development, demonstrationm and diffusion.
- New information and communication technologies offer breakthroughs only for rich countries in delivering services, better quality and low cost solutions.
- Technology solutions can be helpful in attaining SDG 3 but are not efficient vehicles for attaining SDG 4.
- We need local innovation to handle local needs and not depend solely on technologies coming from abroad.
- Information and communication technology can play a very essential role in helping achieve the SDGs.
- Technology solutions can be helpful in attaining SDG 3 and SDG 4 but can not play a role in protecting ecosystems and fighting poverty.
- Universities have a unique role in enabling the world to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
- National and Global level reviews where governments would be called upon to report a set of global indicators under the auspices of Economic and Social Council.
- Ensuring knowledge dissimination, across states, on SDGs through published reports.
- Focussing and investing in private buisnessesto ensure inclusion, justice and environmental sustainability.
- Head of State Summit where world leaders present their progress on the SDGs.
- Public sector programs such as the United States PEPFAR brought public funding and public support alongside private efforts to make antiretroviral medicines reach the poorest of people.
- Antiretroviral medicines produced by private companies, ensured their reach to the remotest corners of the world, with minimal support from the public sector.
- Public efforts are majorly responsible for providing infrastructure, education access and health coverage while businesses are primarily responsible for RDD and D of sustainable technologies.
- Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria supported the private efforts and brought public funding to make drugs available for fighting the disease.
- Universities promote a global culture of education where students from different parts of the world can come to study and play a role in promoting the local culture.
- Universities instill education, entrepreneurship and business development and promote creation of environmnet for new start ups and ICTs.
- Local universities promote research and development which is majorly focussed towards the local needs of the community, thus contributing to the upliftment of the local economy.
- Universities play a role in the dynamism of the economy in the innovative process and enable skilled people to contribute through innovation and new technologies to further economic development.