Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 Report

The Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 brought together over 700 leaders to foster multistakeholder partnerships for the 2030 Agenda and Paris climate agreement. Key outcomes included the launch of the Global Battery Alliance, a Danish SDG Investment Fund, and various national task forces to address skills and gender gaps. The report emphasizes a 'systems-based' leadership approach to prevent global systems breakdown and advocates for the use of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to scale sustainable development solutions.

• The summit launched the Global Battery Alliance to address ethical and environmental issues in the battery value chain, including the banning of child labour and the promotion of recycling, in a market projected to reach $100 billion by 2025.
• The Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU), with government support, announced a Sustainable Development Goal Investment Fund of 5-6 billion Danish Kroner (approximately $886 million) to invest in equity-like instruments for infrastructure in developing countries.
• National task forces were established to address specific socio-economic gaps: South Africa launched a task force to close the skills gap, noting that 41% of its jobs are susceptible to automation, and Panama launched a task force to close the gender gap in labour force participation.
• The World Food Programme (WFP) implemented a blockchain-based system for cash-based transfers to refugees in the Azraq camp in Jordan, enabling over 10,000 people to redeem assistance since May 2017.
• Ten leading companies, including Aviva, Royal DSM, and Philips Lighting, committed to implementing the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure recommendations within three years.
• The report argues that the 17 SDGs should not be treated as unconnected issues but as part of a complex ecosystem requiring a 'systems-based' leadership approach to avoid a global systems breakdown of environmental, financial, and institutional systems.
• The Fourth Sector Development Initiative (FSDI) was established as a platform to promote 'for-benefit' firms globally by improving regulatory environments and investment models.

APA

World Economic Forum (2017). Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 Report. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_SDIS17_report.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 Report. 2017. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_SDIS17_report.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2017sustainable, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 Report}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2017}, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_SDIS17_report.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }