GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Investments in sustainable infrastructure and in scientific and technological research increase economic growth, create jobs and promote prosperity. Over the next 15 years, billions of dollars in infrastructure projects are due to be implemented in developing and emerging countries. Goal 9 is about building resilient infrastructures and promoting sustainable industrialisation and innovation. To make infrastructures and industries sustainable, resources are to be used more efficiently and clean, environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes are to be promoted by 2030. Technology development, research and innovation are to be supported, especially in developing countries.
What is to be achieved?
- Build high-quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure, including regional and cross-border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.
- Promote broad-based and sustainable industrialisation and, by 2030, substantially increase the share of industry in employment and gross domestic product in line with national circumstances and double the share in least developed countries.
- Increase access of small industrial and other enterprises to financial services, including affordable credit, and their inclusion in value chains and markets, especially in developing countries.
- By 2030, modernise infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with more efficient use of resources and increased use of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries acting according to their respective capacities.
- Improve scientific research and enhance the technological capacity of industrial sectors in all countries, and in developing countries, including by promoting innovation and substantially increasing the number of persons engaged in research and development per million people and public and private expenditure on research and development by 2030.
How is the goal to be achieved?
- Facilitate the development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure in developing countries through increased financial, technological, and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states.
- Support indigenous technology development, research, and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring an enabling policy environment, inter alia, for industrial diversification and value addition in the extractive sector.
- Significantly expand access to information and communication technology and aim to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020.
