Welcome back to the Stress Study Tour blog posts!
The last blog post discussed how the Sustainable development goals (SDGs) framework will be used throughout the Stress Study Tour Minor. Today’s blog post will dive deeper into the three chosen SDGs for the minor, SDGs 7, 9, and 11. As a reminder, these are the chosen SDGs:
- SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Each of the 17 SDGs have their own targets, indicators, and a progress timeline which shows how the UN have been working on reaching these targets by 2030. Since the focus of the minor is on three SDGs, their targets with their perspective indicators will also be discussed in detail. All the targets with their indicators were taken from the UN SDG website.
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Targets with indicators:
By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services.
- Indicator: Proportion of the population with access to electricity.
By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
- Indicator: Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption.
By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.
- Indicator: Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and GDP.
By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology.
- Indicator: Amount of funds committed to clean energy research and development.
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Targets with indicators:
Develop quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being.
- Indicator: Proportion of the rural population who live within 2 km of an all-season road.
Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and by 2030, raise significantly industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product.
- Indicator: Manufacturing value added as a proportion of GDP and employment.
Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, and encourage innovation.
- Indicator: Research and development expenditure as a percentage of GDP.
Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological, and technical support.
- Indicator: Total official international support (official development assistance plus other official flows) to infrastructure.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Targets with indicators:
By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums.
- Indicator: Proportion of the urban population living in slums.
By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems for all.
- Indicator: Proportion of the population that has convenient access to public transport.
By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated, and sustainable human settlement planning and management.
- Indicator: Proportion of urban population living in cities with a plan that addresses spatial development.
Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
- Indicator: Number of deaths, missing persons, and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population.
The participants will be using the research question along with the targets and indicators for each of the three SDGs, and their knowledge from the lectures of the minor to provide them with insight into how companies throughout the world are moving towards a more sustainable future, and how each company will contribute to the end goal of achieving the SDGs by 2030.
We believe that by diving deep into each SDG and looking at the targets with the indicators for these SDGs will allow the participants to get a much deeper understanding of each sustainable goal, and how it can be achieved. This will drive them to come up with nice questions for the companies that will be visited, such that more information can be obtained and used in the research. In the next blog post, we will discuss the companies that we will be visiting in both Malaysia and Singapore, and in the Netherlands.
The Stress Study Tour Committee
Ahmed Saadawy
Beril Cosar
Daniël Wonink
Lennart Hendriksen
Lex de Jager
Stijn Dollenkamp