摘要：According to the United Nations 2024 Sustainable Development Goals Report,progress on most of the goals is not on track. What do y

According to the United Nations 2024 Sustainable Development Goals Report,progress on most of the goals is not on track. What do you think is the main reason? Whatrole do resource allocation, technical bottlenecks, and policy implementation play?

Abdulrahman AL-FAGEEH

BFA Board Member & SABIC CEO

The complex interconnections among the 17 SDGs preclude advancing each SDG independently. To effectively drive sustainable development forward, it's essential to adopt a comprehensive, holistic approach that rallies stakeholders to collaborate across multiple economic sectors, taking into account factors like resource availability, technological innovation, and regulatory frameworks. But it's also crucial that we respect differences in national priorities and an industry's resource-processing capacities as we tackle key challenges such as the readiness of new technologies, and the availability of financing options. By engaging in international collaboration across economic sectors, we can align diverse regional and national objectives to create practical, impactful solutions that accelerate progress on the SDGs.

The chemical industry is ideally suited to drive such collaborative efforts. It supplies raw and semi-finished products for durable goods in both the consumer sector and the alternative-energy sector. Its linchpin position in countless product value chains also means that the industry can help to tie the chains' open ends so that waste products can be turned into feedstock for new products, making the global economy "circular". A circular economy is deliberately designed to deliver prosperity without requiring unsustainable levels of resource consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, or environmental pollution. In fact, SDGs 7, 13, and 14 (which respectively have to do with clean energy, climate action, and life below water) can all be simultaneously addressed in the conceptual framework of a circular carbon economy, as proposed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia when it held the presidency of the G20.

As a responsible leader in the global chemical industry and active member of the international community, SABIC is working with key public- and private sector players in upstream and downstream industries to address, in an open-minded way, some of the most pressing economic and environmental challenges of our time. Through multiple partnerships, cutting-edge technologies, and bold commitments to carbon neutrality and circularity, it is doing what it can to bring the SDGs back on track to reach their 2030 targets.

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