Closing comments, Better leveraging Science, Technology, Innovation and Engineering for Accelerating Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, Side Event, UN

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This session explored strategies for better leveraging STI across all levels while harnessing its transformative potential. This includes the need for closer collaboration between the scientific, engineering, and technological communities and all stakeholders including societal actors and policy-makers, to co-design science-based solutions for achieving the SDGs. The session highlighted examples of impactful initiatives that can accelerate achievement while enabling synergies and multiple co-benefits across the different goals under review this year – SDG 1, 2, 13, 16, and 17. Recording. Prof. Dr. Joyeeta Gupta, University of Amsterdam, and Co-chair of the United Nations 10-Member Group noted the need for a better understanding of the science-policy interface and called for more immediate action to address climate change and especially for more action by the developed countries. She noted that technological solutions can have enormous social and environmental footprints. She said that the information at this side event will be very useful for the report that will come out next year.