Over 100 coalitions – involving champions and experts from all sectors and walks of life – gathered together for the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2018 in what was arguably the world’s biggest multistakeholder “accelerator” event to advance action and scale innovation on collaborations for sustainable development and climate change.

The Summit offers a unique platform to help public, private and civil society actors to connect, advance and scale their ideas, collaborations and initiatives, as well as harness cutting-edge innovations in business models and Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, thereby shaping the global multistakeholder agenda for action.

This approach – entrepreneurialism in the global public interest – lies at the heart of the World Economic Forum.

The summit yielded an impressive array of outcomes and advancements across multiple multistakeholder coalitions. Examples include:

Launch of the Platform for Good Digital Identity, forging collaboration with over 50 organizations, including the World Bank, MasterCard, UNHCR, UN World Food Programme and the Mozilla Foundation, among many others. The platform will advance a first phase of projects to empower everyone to have their rights protected in our fast-moving digital world. Support has generously been committed for three years by Omidyar Network.
Launch of the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP), a new public-private collaboration to focus on solving plastic waste along the whole supply chain, from redesigning plastics to how we recover and reuse them. Support totalling close to $10 million was announced from Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as the Coca-Cola Company, the Dow Chemical Company and the PepsiCo Foundation. The first national collaboration was announced with Indonesia.
Launch of the Tech Impact 2030 Initiative. Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the World Economic Forum launched an unprecedented open collaboration that brings together leaders across industry, technology, academia and government to share ideas and align resources to help solve a series of challenges in key sectors. The first Tech Impact 2030 Initiative was announced in partnership with Purdue University, addressing food security and precision agriculture.
Launch of the Coalition for Digital Intelligence, involving the OECD, IEEE and DQ Institute, to help achieve universal basic digital literacy worldwide. The coalition will support the broad adoption of a common set of standards and definitions for basic digital literacy in both the education and technology sectors.
Commitment from over 200 participants who signed the TB Innovation Charter as part of the TB Innovation Summit, co-hosted by Johnson & Johnson, Stop TB Partnership, the Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis and the World Economic Forum, also bringing concrete commitments to TB investment.
Launch of the report to Accelerate Sustainable Production in Andhra Pradesh, by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India, N. Chandrababu Naidu. The report, undertaken jointly with the World Economic Forum, identified a $5 billion annual opportunity in improved agriculture for the state by 2022.
Awards presented to 12 Social Entrepreneurs of the Year, recognized for their outstanding leadership in pioneering solutions for social and environmental challenges, ranging from refugee family reunification and human rights to water infrastructure and financial inclusion.
Commitment from the World Economic Forum to host the 2019 Sustainable Development Impact Summit, same place, same time, next year!

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