Science, technology, innovation and capacity building in numbers - Technological advances have made significant contributions to the SDGs, including increasing renewable energy’s share in electricity production.

The section will conclude with a discussion of policy areas where invest in education and training, infrastructure and institutions concerted efforts are needed to ensure the overall positive and inclusive and to ensure appropriate levels of market competition and impacts of technology, as well as the United Nations system’s role in protection of intellectual property rights. [...] The The Addis Agenda stresses the importance of public policies and finance to Conference presents an opportunity to identify and address domestic spur innovation and notes with concern the uneven innovative capacity, con- and international hurdles that limit countries’ capacity for innovation nectivity and access to technology that exists within and between countries. [...] efforts to increase technology adoption and close the technology divide: Despite the success of these initiatives, the formulation of the in- addressing gender-related barriers to education and digital tools, meeting ternational STI agenda and the evolution of the global innovation women and girls where they are and embedding digital skills into existing system have historically been skewed toward. [...] The Body will seek to link and coordinate with The global financial landscape is undergoing a transformation, existing initiatives, including that of the European Union and the Group driven in large part over the last two decades by the rapid growth of Seven (G7) Hiroshima AI Process.93 A core objective of the Body is to of “fintech”—technology that provides financial solutions based identify effe. [...] ment, to improve women’s access to financial services and the Internet and However, fintech can also incentivize riskier activities and to address the differences in attitudes, discrimination and social norms and exacerbate the cyclicality of financial markets, especially in a laws that marginalize women’s access in many countries.