Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017

18-19Sep 2017
New York, USA

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With over 700 participants from government, business, civil society and international organizations, the inaugural Sustainable Development Impact Summit provided a new platform for strengthening public-private engagement to advance creative solutions and deliver on the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Some impact highlights emerging from these discussions include:

  • A new Global Battery Alliance that will safeguard workers, ban child labour, eradicate pollution, promote re-use and recycling, and unlock innovation for green energy storage.
     
  • A 5-6 billion Danish Kroner SDG Investment Fund launched by the Government of Denmark. Modelled on the successful Investment Fund for Developing Countries, this fund will invest in equity-like instruments in developing countries to help advance infrastructure for the global goals.
     
  • A national task force to close the skills gap in South Africa, led by Jeff Radebe, Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of South Africa, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The country ranks 87th out of 130 countries for human capital optimization, according to the Global Human Capital Index 2017. By 2020, 39% of core skills required across all jobs will be wholly different, while 41% of jobs in South Africa are susceptible to automation.
     
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution for the Earth Initiative, a public private initiative to identify, fund and scale new ventures that harness technologies for the environment.
     
  • The Fourth Sector Development Initiative to strengthen the supportive ecosystem and generate the necessary growth of for-benefit firms globally. 
     
  • Global Alliance on Closing the Gender Gap is a global platform for leaders and experts to build consensus, share ideas and strategically guide programmatic action, supported by the World Economic Forum’s Closing the Gender Gap project.
     
  • The GSMA Disaster Response Innovation Fund supported by the UK Department for International Development announced that it will test and scale innovations that use mobile technology to help and empower people or communities affected by humanitarian emergencies.
     

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