Nestor Osorio Londono the Colombian administrative lawyer and Representative to the UN has been interviewed by Gustavo Capdevila for the IPS News Service in an article titled ‘Q&A: Innovation Key to Sustainable Development Goals’ In the article Osorio Londono states “I believe it [Innovation, as the fruit of science and technology] is a cross-cutting issue within many of the objectives for the post-2015 period. We’re talking about the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] – that is, how to do something beyond the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] and bring together industrialised and developing countries in an ongoing process of irreversible compliance with fundamental goals for integral sustainability. …We’re talking about water conservation, more liveable cities, food security, infrastructure and curtailing (green house) gas emissions. We have to decarbonise the planet. And all of this forms part of innovation. …Those who can participate in a very efficient manner, as we have seen, are young people. Young people are and always have been involved in the origins of the biggest innovations. Microsoft, Facebook and others have been created, innovated, by 20 or 25-year-old kids.So there’s a very important link here: how innovation and connection and preparation of future work go together. And when it comes to gender equality, we’re talking about the same thing. …I think they could do it with a fundamental commitment by governments, which translates into budget allocations. The partnership between government and private sector is also essential throughout this process. I’ll cite an example of what we have done in Colombia: the policy of President Juan Manuel Santos has been to earmark – and a law was approved to this end – a portion of oil and mining industry royalties to the Institute of Sciences and Technology. …Companies gradually discover what their needs are and how they have to adapt to the requirements of sustainability. (For example), there can’t be investment in projects that use huge quantities of water, because that is wasteful. Companies have to adapt to the requirements that the world presents…”  Inspired by Gustavo Capdevila, IPS News ow.ly/kBeTC Image source Twitter ow.ly/kBg0S Innovation key to sustainable development goals (May 30 2013)Nestor Osorio Londono the Colombian administrative lawyer and Representative to the UN has been interviewed by Gustavo Capdevila for the IPS News Service in an article titled ‘Q&A: Innovation Key to Sustainable Development Goals’ In the article Osorio Londono states “I believe it [Innovation, as the fruit of science and technology] is a cross-cutting issue within many of the objectives for the post-2015 period. We’re talking about the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] – that is, how to do something beyond the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] and bring together industrialised and developing countries in an ongoing process of irreversible compliance with fundamental goals for integral sustainability. …We’re talking about water conservation, more liveable cities, food security, infrastructure and curtailing (green house) gas emissions. We have to decarbonise the planet. And all of this forms part of innovation. …Those who can participate in a very efficient manner, as we have seen, are young people. Young people are and always have been involved in the origins of the biggest innovations. Microsoft, Facebook and others have been created, innovated, by 20 or 25-year-old kids.So there’s a very important link here: how innovation and connection and preparation of future work go together. And when it comes to gender equality, we’re talking about the same thing. …I think they could do it with a fundamental commitment by governments, which translates into budget allocations. The partnership between government and private sector is also essential throughout this process. I’ll cite an example of what we have done in Colombia: the policy of President Juan Manuel Santos has been to earmark – and a law was approved to this end – a portion of oil and mining industry royalties to the Institute of Sciences and Technology. …Companies gradually discover what their needs are and how they have to adapt to the requirements of sustainability. (For example), there can’t be investment in projects that use huge quantities of water, because that is wasteful. Companies have to adapt to the requirements that the world presents…”

 

Inspired by Gustavo Capdevila, IPS News ow.ly/kBeTC Image source Twitter ow.ly/kBg0S