The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts forward a broad and ambitious agenda for global action on sustainable development. The scale and ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals require identifying new opportunities for innovation within development projects. Sustainability and innovations are also increasingly overlapping within corporate structures in discussions on how businesses can meet their long-term objectives and goals. The adaptive ability to identify new market opportunities is key for business resiliency but also for business to thrive and not just survive in this new market economy. In order to make a concrete move in sounding the importance of SDGs for businesses, UN Global Compact collaborated with UN SDSN Youth in organizing live discussion sessions to explore the transformative vision of The 2030 Agenda. The live sessions were held into six sessions, bringing up six different topics surrounding the ideas and implementations of the SDGs.The SDG Innovation – Live Sessions consisted as follows:
1. SDG Innovations Live Session: Why It Matters: Let’s Talk SDGs! — 28 Feb 2023
Published: 2023-02-27
To begin the journey, UN Global Compact and UNSDSN organized a live discussion that strived to explore the trends impacting the achievement of the SDGs and the importance of intrapreneurship in co-creating solutions that benefit everyone. This session also addressed the interplay between innovation and the SDGs and the enormous market opportunities for companies committed to solving some of humanity’s biggest challenges. This event was held virtually on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, and invited various numerous speakers comprised: