Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Growth in productivity and incomes, and improvements in health and education, require innovation and investment in critical infrastructure such as transport, irrigation, energy, and information technology.
This SDG has several 2030 targets to which every company can contribute. These targets aim to upgrade and develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure; and retrofit industries to increase resource-use efficiency and accelerate adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes.
Every Future-Fit Business must avoid slowing down progress toward this SDG by:
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Procurement of goods and services does not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s supply chain affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its supply chain, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Paying the right tax in the right place at the right time.
This ensures that taxes flow fairly to support the development of physical and social infrastructure in those areas that the business depends upon.
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Investing in assets that do not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s investments affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its financial assets, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Any Future-Fit Business may actively speed up progress toward this SDG by:
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Ensuring more people have access to energy.
Expanding energy infrastructure ensures more people have access to energy, promoting inclusive industrialization.
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Ensuring others contribute less to water stress.
Upgrading or developing water infrastructure that supports the withdrawal and discharge of water which does not exacerbate water stress promotes low-impact industrialisation.
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Ensuring more people have access to clean water.
Expanding water infrastructure to ensure more people have access to water for drinking, cooking and sanitation, promotes inclusive industrialization.
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Ensuring others depend less on inadequately-managed natural resources.
Increasing resource efficiency reduces resource demand and thereby the negative impacts associated with the harvesting or mining of new resources.
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Ensuring people's capabilities are strengthened.
Increasing access to financial services for small-scale enterprises and strengthening their capacity to serve global markets, increasing their resiliency and incomes.
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Ensuring more people have access to economic opportunity.
Increasing access to financial services for small-scale industrial enterprises contributes to inclusive industrialization.
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Ensuring social cohesion is strengthened.
Increasing access to, or the availability of, shared spaces fosters cohesion and promotes inclusive industrialization.
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Strengthening infrastructure in pursuit of future-fitness.
Developing quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening governance in pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring governance is accountable, participatory, responsive, responsible and transparent removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening market mechanisms in pursuit of future-fitness.
Overcoming technological, knowledge and incentive barriers through the use of market mechanisms removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Aligning social norms to increasingly support the pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring social norms align with socially and environmentally responsible behaviour removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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