From summits to solutions : innovations in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals / Raj M. Desai, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, and John W. McArthur, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The need for innovations to implement the Sustainable Development Goals / Raj M. Desai, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, and John W. McArthur -- Expanding women's economic opportunities / Jeni Klugman and Laura Tyson -- From green bonds to sustainable development : the case of Nigeria / Amina Mohammed with Simon Zadek -- Collective action on business standards, goals, and metrics to achieve scale and impact for the SDGs / Jane Nelson -- Professionalizing cross-sector collaboration to implement the SDGs / Ann Florini -- Building sustainable financing architecture to achieve the SDGs : the case of Brazil / Rogerio Studart -- Making rural areas places of opportunity : not just a "rural agenda" / Bettina Prato -- Using remote sensing and geospatial information for sustainable development / Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Inian Moorthy, Olha Danylo, Michiel van Dijk, and Barbara Ryan -- Enhancing statistical capacity for development / Ryuichi Tomizawa and Noriharu Masugi -- Rescaling government for an urban future / Reuben Abraham and Pritika Hingorani -- Protecting half the ocean? / Enric Sala and Kristin Rechberger -- A Canadian North Star : crafting an advanced economy approach to the Sustainable Development Goals / Margaret Biggs and John W. McArthur -- A people's agenda : citizen participation and the SDGs / Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah -- Safeguarding our global commons / Naoko Ishii -- Unity in diversity : reshaping the global health architecture / Ikuo Takizawa -- Crowding in private finance : what multilateral banks can do differently / Mahmoud Mohieldin and Jos Verbeek, with Nritya Subramaniam

A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals--in such areas as education and health care --is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them. But so far there is no overall, positive agenda of what new things need to be done to ensure the goals are achieved across all nations. In a search of fresh approaches to the longstanding problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings mounted a collaborative research effort to advance implementation of Agenda 2030. This edited volume is the product of that effort. The book approaches the UN's goals through three broad lenses. The first considers new approaches to capturing value. Examples include Nigeria's first green bonds, practical methods to expand women's economic opportunities, benchmarking to reflect business contributions to achieving the goals, new incentives for investment in infrastructure, and educational systems that promote cross-sector problem solving. The second lens entails new approaches to targeting places, including oceans, rural areas, fast-growing developing cities, and the interlocking challenge of data systems, including geospatial information generated by satellites. The third lens focuses on updating governance, broadly defined. Issues include how civil society can align with the SDG challenge; how an advanced economy like Canada can approach the goals at home and abroad; what needs to be done to foster new approaches for managing the global commons; and how can multilateral institutions for health and development finance evolve.