A/RES/75/316
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 August 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 136
Impact of rapid technological change on the achievement
of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 August 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.123 and A/75/L.123/Add.1)]
75/316.
Impact of rapid technological change on the achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals and targets
The General Assembly,
Considering that technological change includes new and powerful tools that can
help to realize the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 mindful
that the impact, opportunities and challenges of rapid technological change on
sustainable development are being assessed in order to deepen their understanding,
and recalling its resolution 73/17 of 26 November 2018, in which it decided to
continue discussing the topic “Impact of rapid technological change on the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets”,
Noting that rapid technological change can contribute to the faster achievement
of the 2030 Agenda by improving real incomes, enabling faster and wider deployment
of novel solutions to economic, social and environmental obstacles, supporting more
inclusive forms of participation in social and economic life, replacing
environmentally costly modes of production with more sustainable ones and giving
policymakers powerful tools to design and plan development interventions,
Recalling its resolutions 69/313 of 27 July 2015 and 70/1 of 25 September 2015,
in which it established and launched a Technology Facilitation Mechanism to support
the Sustainable Development Goals, whose updated findings on this topic, as well as
those of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development, were
presented and discussed at its sixth multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology
and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals,
Recalling also its resolutions 75/202 of 21 December 2020, 74/229 of
19 December 2019, 74/247 of 27 December 2019, 75/1 of 21 September 2020, 75/176
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