Parallel to the UN General Assembly meeting in September, a Science Summit is taking place with a focus on how science can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. One of the sessions during the Sciences Summit is on “Advanced Tools for Analyzing Poverty, Climate and Environmental Changes”.
The eradication of poverty, zero hunger, climate action, the preservation of life and biodiversity are all central to the SDG agenda. To achieve these goals, we need to understand how to feed a growing population and guarantee a decent livelihood for everyone without exhausting the planet’s environmental resources. We also need more accurate poverty measures which allow reliable comparisons between countries and over time. We need improved knowledge about how poverty and environmental challenges coincide and interact over time, to better understand how to formulate policies that allow both the eradication of poverty and a sustainable environment. Knowledge is central to meeting these challenges.
On September 18, a session will bring researchers together to present on recent advances in:
Says professor Björn Halleröd from the University of Gothenburg, one of the session’s convenors:
“The greatest challenge of the 21st Century is how to ensure that global living standards improve while also protecting and improving the environment. Poverty and inequality need to fall and environment protection and biodiversity need to increase if we are to live on a better planet than the one we inherited from our parents. By combining environmental information from satellites with high quality social survey data, we can understand the complex relationships between poverty and deforestation on a global scale in order to formulate more effective policies.”
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Read more about the Science Summit at the summit's web site.