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Harnessing technology for a better future Looking into the future
is always difficult and often problematic-but sometimes it's useful
to imagine what innovations might resolve today's problems and make
tomorrow better. In this book, 15 distinguished international
experts examine how technology will affect the human condition and
natural world within the next ten years. Their stories reflect
major ambitions for what the future could bring and offer a glimpse
into the possibilities for achieving the UN's ambitious Sustainable
Development Goals. The authors were asked to envision future
success in their respective fields, given the current state of
technology and potential progress over the next decade. The central
question driving their research: What are likely technological
advances that could contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals
at major scale, affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of
people or substantial geographies around the globe. One overall
takeaway is that gradualist approaches will not achieve those goals
by 2030. Breakthroughs will be necessary in science, in the
development of new products and services, and in institutional
systems. Each of the experts responded with stories that reflect
big ambitions for what the future may bring. Their stories are not
projections or forecasts as to what will happen; they are reasoned
and reasonable conjectures about what could happen. The editors'
intent is to provide a glimpse into the possibilities for the
future of sustainable development. At a time when many people worry
about stalled progress on the economic, social, and environmental
challenges of sustainable development, Breakthrough is a reminder
that the promise of a better future is within our grasp, across a
range of domains. It will interest anyone who wonders about the
world's economic, social, and environmental future.
The ambitious 15-year agenda known as the Sustainable Development
Goals, adopted in 2015 by all members of the United Nations,
contains a pledge that "no one will be left behind." This book aims
to translate that bold global commitment into an action-oriented
mindset, focused on supporting specific people in specific places
who are facing specific problems.In this volume, experts from
Japan, the United States, and other countries address a range of
challenges faced by people across the globe, including women and
girls, smallholder farmers, migrants, and those living in extreme
poverty. These are many of the people whose lives are at the heart
of the aspirations embedded in the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals. They are the people most in need of such essentials as
health care, quality education, decent work, affordable energy, and
a clean environment. This book is the result of a collaboration
between the Japan International Cooperation Research Institute and
the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. It offers
practical ideas for transforming "leave no one behind" from a
slogan into effective actions which, if implemented, will make it
possible to reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. In
addition to policymakers in the field of sustainable development,
this book will be of interest to academics, activists, and leaders
of international organizations and civil society groups who work
every day to promote inclusive economic and social progress.
A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
by 2030. All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in
September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen ""Sustainable
Development Goals,"" to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals-in
such areas as education and health car -is laudable in and of
itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them.
But so far there is no overall, positive agenda of what new things
need to be done to ensure the goals are achieved across all
nations. In a search of fresh approaches to the longstanding
problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Japan
International Cooperation Agency and the Global Economy and
Development program at Brookings mounted a collaborative research
effort to advance implementation of Agenda 2030. This edited volume
is the product of that effort. The book approaches the UN's goals
through three broad lenses. The first considers new approaches to
capturing value. Examples include Nigeria's first green bonds,
practical methods to expand women's economic opportunities,
benchmarking to reflect business contributions to achieving the
goals, new incentives for investment in infrastructure, and
educational systems that promote cross-sector problem solving. The
second lens entails new approaches to targeting places, including
oceans, rural areas, fast-growing developing cities, and the
interlocking challenge of data systems, including geospatial
information generated by satellites. The third lens focuses on
updating governance, broadly defined. Issues include how civil
society can align with the SDG challenge; how an advanced economy
like Canada can approach the goals at home and abroad; what needs
to be done to foster new approaches for managing the global
commons; and how can multilateral institutions for health and
development finance evolve.
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