From summits to solutions : innovations in implementing the sustainable development goals /

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...

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Other Authors: Desai, Raj M., 1966- (Editor), Katō, Hiroshi (Researcher) (Editor), Kharas, Homi J., 1954- (Editor), McArthur, John W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Barookings Institution Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • The need for innovations to implement the Sustainable Development Goals / Raj M. Desai, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, and John W. McArthur
  • Expanding women's economic opportunities / Jeni Klugman and Laura Tyson
  • From green bonds to sustainable development : the case of Nigeria / Amina Mohammed with Simon Zadek
  • Collective action on business standards, goals, and metrics to achieve scale and impact for the SDGs / Jane Nelson
  • Professionalizing cross-sector collaboration to implement the SDGs / Ann Florini
  • Building sustainable financing architecture to achieve the SDGs : the case of Brazil / Rogerio Studart
  • Making rural areas places of opportunity : not just a "rural agenda" / Bettina Prato
  • Using remote sensing and geospatial information for sustainable development / Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Inian Moorthy, Olha Danylo, Michiel van Dijk, and Barbara Ryan
  • Enhancing statistical capacity for development / Ryuichi Tomizawa and Noriharu Masugi
  • Rescaling government for an urban future / Reuben Abraham and Pritika Hingorani
  • Protecting half the ocean? / Enric Sala and Kristin Rechberger
  • A Canadian North Star : crafting an advanced economy approach to the Sustainable Development Goals / Margaret Biggs and John W. McArthur
  • A people's agenda : citizen participation and the SDGs / Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
  • Safeguarding our global commons / Naoko Ishii
  • Unity in diversity : reshaping the global health architecture / Ikuo Takizawa
  • Crowding in private finance : what multilateral banks can do differently / Mahmoud Mohieldin and Jos Verbeek, with Nritya Subramaniam.