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G20 Germany 2017

TF1 - 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

G20 Germany 2017

Consolidated G20 Synthetic Biology Policies and Their Role in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Bartlomiej Kolodziejczyk, Alexander Kagansky
G20 Germany 2017

Nanowaste: Need for Disposal and Recycling Standards

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Thomas Faunce, Bartlomiej Kolodziejczyk
G20 Germany 2017

Sustainable Ocean Economy, Innovation and Growth: A G20 Initiative for the 7th Largest Economy in the World

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Kristian Teleki, Mia Pantzar, Michael K. Orbach, Daniela Russi, John Virdin, Andrew Farmer, Martin Visbeck, Patrick ten Brink, Rajni Bakshi, Rajiv Bhatia, Benjamin Boteler, R. Andreas Kraemer (Ecologic Institute, Berlin (Germany)), Miguel Herédia, Ina Krüger, Grit Martinez, Akshay Mathur (ORF Mumbai), Linwood Pendleton, Tiago Pitta e Cunha, Julien Rochette, Cyrus Rustomjee, Torsten Thiele, Scott Vaughan, Anna-Katharina Hornidge (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS))
G20 Germany 2017

Making Cities Part of the Global Solution – Overcoming Obstacles, Exploring Opportunities

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Marco Contardi, Anja Eickelberg Fortes Tigre, Kathrin Zeller
G20 Germany 2017

Implementation of the 2030 Agenda by G20 Members: How to Address the Transformative and Integrated Character of the SDGs by Individual and Collective Action

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Chen Dongxiao (Shanghai Institutes for International Studies), Paulo Esteves, Edna Martinez, Imme Scholz (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))
G20 Germany 2017

Development and Justice Through Transformation: The Four Big ‘I’s

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
German Advisory Council on Global Change
G20 Germany 2017

Coherent G20 Policies Towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Jann Lay (Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs Lead Research Fellow RP 3), Clara Brandi (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Imme Scholz (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Nancy Alexander, Rainer Thiele, Ram Upendra Das, Richard Klein
G20 Germany 2017

Reforming International Cooperation Towards Transformative Change

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia), Paulo Esteves, Imme Scholz (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), LI Yuefen
G20 Germany 2017

The Ocean Dimension of the 2030 Agenda: Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Ocean, Seas, and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Martin Visbeck, Sebastian Unger, R. Andreas Kraemer (Ecologic Institute, Berlin (Germany)), Jane Lubchenco, Alexander Müller, Barbara Neumann, Julien Rochette, Stefanie Schmidt, Torsten Thiele
G20 Germany 2017

A Multi-Religious Consensus on the Ethics of Sustainable Development: Reflections of the Ethics in Action Initiative

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Anthony Annett, Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University), William Vendley, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
G20 Germany 2017

Circular economy measures to keep plastics and their value in the economy, avoid waste and reduce marine litter

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Patrick ten Brink, François Galgani, Heather Leslie, Michiel De Smet, Jean-Pierre Schweitzer, Emma Watkins
G20 Germany 2017

SDGs and Health: A Vision for Public Policy

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Zoe Boutilier, Ilona Kickbusch (World Health Summit), Ali Mehdi, Sunisha Neupane, Miriam Sangiorgio, Peter Taylor, Michaela Told
G20 Germany 2017

A Long-Term Transformation Pathways Initiative (LTTPI) for the G20

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Guido Schmidt-Traub
G20 Germany 2017

Accounting for the End of Poverty

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Laurence Chandy

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