1,400 participants from 90 countries at the G-STIC Conference of 2018
During the second G-STIC conference in 2018, 1,400 participants from 90 countries discovered real-life examples of market-ready integrated technological solutions for achieving the SDGs, relating to water, energy, circular economy, food, health and education.
Solutions that can substantially contribute to achieving the SDGs effectively exist today. Nevertheless, they are often not sufficiently deployed on a global scale to have any lasting impact on the achievement of the SDGs.
Towards building Science, Technology & Innovation roadmaps
Policy and decision makers are often not aware of the existence of market-ready technological solutions. Even if they are aware of these solutions, they may not fully recognise their potential for the SDGs or even lack the political will to implement them. Policy action is therefore urgently needed to bring these solutions to the market in different regions of the world and have them deployed at scale.
The participants therefore identified urgent actions that the international community, national policy and decision makers, investors, civil society and entrepreneurs should consider in order to deploy market-ready technological solutions on a global scale. They confirmed a concrete engagement towards building Science, Technology & Innovation roadmaps that include market-ready technological solutions for achieving the SDGs.
Main messages of the second G-STIC Conference
The Chairperson Summary reports on the key findings for the thematic clusters (water, energy, circular economy, food, geospatial data, health and education), the cross-cutting themes (climate-smart technology, gender mainstreaming, ICT, sustainable technology & development, youth engagement) and the Industry Night themes (CO2 and Bamboo as alternative resources).
This Chairperson Summary includes also examples of a potential input that can be provided by G-STIC as an input to the UN/IATT guidebook on STI roadmaps for the SDGs.
Photos of the conference
