SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

The goal is to achieve inclusive and environmentally sound industrialisation and develop quality, sustainable and resilient infrastructure. To make this possible, enterprises need better access to financial services and markets, among other things.

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Taking recycling to another level

A pilot project on e-waste in Nigeria is demonstrating how the recycling industry in Africa can be driven forward while protecting the workers that dismantle discarded devices. A visit to the megacity of Lagos.

Interview

‘One thing is for sure: the risks of inaction far outweigh the human, economic and social costs’

An interview with Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), on talent and how digital technologies can help to get back on track towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Interview

‘We need a global re-affirmation of commitment to the SDGs’

An interview with the Chair of the GIZ Management Board on the mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda. Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel speaks about the responsibility of the Global North, the interlinkages between environmental, economic and social factors, and points out that solidarity is an intrinsic part of GIZ staff’s make-up.

Report

Fire and water

Water management in one of the world’s driest countries has many facets. Ammar Ali Zaid from Jordan works until the sparks fly to prevent precious water from seeping into the desert ground.

Three questions

‘For us, waste is valuable’

Three questions for Costa Rican Guillermo Pereira, founder and managing director of Fortech

Interview

‘A historical chance to build a powerful region’

Lviv, revisited: In 2020, akzente spoke with its mayor Andriy Sadovyi for the first time. Since the Russian invasion, his world is a different one.

Agenda 2030

Nothing less than the ‘transformation of our world’ is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda. Economic progress worldwide should be in harmony with social justice and the protection of natural resources.

Since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda, together with the Paris Climate Agreement, has been the guiding principle of German development cooperation and the overarching framework to which GIZ aligns its work.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

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