A/RES/72/228
Science, technology and innovation for development
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports
and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Recognizing the importance of technology as one of the key means of
implementation in the pursuit of sustainable development, along with finance,
capacity-building, an institutional framework and trade,
Taking note of the reports of the Commission on Science and Technology for
Development on its fourteenth to twentieth sessions, 5
Recognizing the central role that the Commission on Science and Technology
for Development plays, as the United Nations focal point for science, technology and
innovation for development, in analysing how science, tec hnology and innovation,
including information and communications technologies, serve as enablers of the
2030 Agenda by acting as a forum for strategic planning, sharing lessons learned and
best practices, providing foresight about critical trends in scienc e, technology and
innovation in key sectors of the economy, the environment and society, and drawing
attention to emerging and disruptive technologies,
Recalling its resolutions 64/208 of 21 December 2009, 65/280 of 17 June 2011,
66/212 of 22 December 2011, 68/222 of 20 December 2013, 70/215 of 22 December
2015 and 70/294 of 25 July 2016,
Recognizing the importance of the creation of a conducive environment that
attracts and supports private investment, entrepreneurship a nd corporate social
responsibility, including an efficient, adequate, balanced and effective intellectual
property framework, while encouraging access to science and technology by
developing countries,
Recognizing also the vital role that science, technology and innovation,
including environmentally sound technologies, can play in development and in
facilitating efforts to address global challenges, such as efforts to eradicate poverty,
achieve food security and nutrition, enhance access to energy and inc rease energy
efficiency, fight diseases, improve education, protect the environment, accelerate the
pace of economic diversification and transformation, improve productivity and
competitiveness and ultimately support sustainable development,
Recognizing further innovation, such as pro-poor, inclusive, grass-roots and
social innovation, that seeks to solve problems generally not addressed by markets,
Recognizing that realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and
girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all of the Sustainable
Development Goals and targets, and recognizing also that there is a need to target
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Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2011, Supplement No. 11 (E/2011/31);
ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 11 and corrigendum (E/2012/31 and E/2012/31/Corr.1); ibid., 2013,
Supplement No. 11 and corrigendum (E/2013/31 and E/2013/31/Corr.1); ibid., 2014, Supplement
No. 11 (E/2014/31); ibid., 2015, Supplement No. 11 (E/2015/31); ibid., 2016, Supplement No. 11
(E/2016/31); and ibid., 2017, Supplement No. 11 (E/2017/31).
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