To browse Academia. Specific task forces and platforms have been established to improve scientific input into global policy making for SDGs, and to facilitate technology generation for specific targets, the first one being "no poverty" UN Much of what we enjoy in the twenty-first century as development goods are the result of knowledge and technologies generated by formal scientific research.
The production of these development goods, whether automobiles and mobile phones or essentials like food, pharmaceuticals, or other fast-moving consumer goods like processed food, demand concentrated sources of energy like fossil fuels, nuclear, and hydel power. The massive material and energy extractions and the increase in pollutants and other emissions like greenhouse gases GHGs they cause are threats to the sustainability of development itself and of our planet.
Located within certain policies and development contexts, formal scientific research gives us information about the nature and magnitude of these threats to sustainability and helps define permissible levels for pollution, whether in rivers, the air we breathe, or our bodies. Within these policy frameworks, it also plays a major role in generating, incentivizing, and propagating the very technologies and social and economic practices that create unsustainable development, worsening absolute and relative poverty.
The SDGs are built on the three pillars of sustainable economic growth, social, and environmental systems. In particular, without the requisite plurality of normative perspectives on sustainability and multiple interpretations and practices associated with the concept of development Sneddon et al.
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How then will we achieve the SDG 1, the goal to end poverty? Why should this be different from its relationship to policy for conventional economic development?
