Activating the SDGs

In 2021, the SDG Lab continued to adapt to the context of the global pandemic, using innovative meeting and exchange formats to work with SDG actors and other partners across SDG sectors.

In this first episode of 'It Takes a Global Crisis', we explore the impact of COVID-19 on digitization and connectivity while assessing issues of digitization and connectivity through the lens of the SDGs and whether progress has been accelerated or disadvantaged due to the pandemic.

In January 2021, the Geneva 2030 Ecosystem launched the “We are Geneva 2030” profile series.

The much-anticipated 2021 edition of Building Bridges Week (BBW) ended on Thursday, December 2 after three intense days of sustainable finance for the SDGs. The hybrid format of both the Building Bridges Summit, held on 29 November, and the Week allowed for diverse and strong online and in-person participation.

We’ve created this learning resource to pass on what we’ve discovered on our journey so far, to enable other groups to make best use of the Lab approach and replicate the parts that will work best for them.

Launched in late 2019, the Pipeline Builder is a partnership between the SDG Lab and the Ground Up Project, The West African Republic of Ghana has an ambitious sustainable development agenda. They shared their progress in the pipeline builder session

The second edition of Building Bridges featured many voices and perspectives from sustainable finance actors and leaders from different regions of the planet.

Securing the funding needed for sustainable development by involving as many actors from different sectors is more urgent than ever, amid a widening “trust deficit” between the haves and the have-nots, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Monday.

The UN climate conference in Glasgow brought fresh commitments from financial institutions to align investments with the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. However, if unaccompanied by investments to improve the lives of people around the world, the effort may be doomed from the start, Nadia Isler, director of SDG Lab at UN Geneva, and Sandrine Salerno, executive director of Sustainable Finance Geneva, the organiser of the Building Bridges summit which kicks off today.

Building Bridges will kick off on November 29 and run until December 2, 2021. Don't miss your chance, it's not too late to register.

The SDG Lab has prepared the following information documents for participants attending Building Bridges 2021.

GENEVA—SDG Lab, a founding partner of Building Bridges Week, will host three events as part of its participation in the 2021 conference in Geneva on sustainable finance.