As part of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism mandated by the 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the annual collaborative Multi-stakeholder Forum on science, technology and innovation for the sustainable development Goals (STI Forum) is expected to “provide a venue for facilitating interaction, matchmaking and the establishment of networks between relevant stakeholders and multi-stakeholder partnerships in order to identify and examine technology needs and gaps, including with regard to scientific cooperation, innovation and capacity-building, and also in order to help facilitate development, transfer and dissemination of relevant technologies for the sustainable development goals.” It will “discuss science, technology and innovation cooperation around thematic areas for the implementation of the sustainable development goals, congregating all relevant stakeholders to actively contribute in their area of expertise.”

IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, will participate as a panelist in plenary session 4.

Session: STI for sustainable consumption and productions patterns (SGD 12)

Chair

• H.E. Dr. Toshiya Hoshino, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations

Moderator

• Ms. Anne-Christine Ritschkoff, Senior Advisor VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

Panelists

• Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI
• Mr. Arun Sundararajan, Professor and Faculty Fellow, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) and author, The Sharing Economy
• Ms. Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Mr. Marco van der Ree, Head of Business Development, Climate-KIC, European Institute of Innovation and Technology