Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure – The Case of Accenture

Anna Sörensson () and Navid Ghannad ()
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Anna Sörensson: University of Inland Norway
Navid Ghannad: Halmstad University

A chapter in Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals, 2025, pp 139-153 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The UN has progressively determined that sustainability is a priority in global affairs. At their core, the 17 SDGs issued by the UN serve as a blueprint for improving the world. This blueprint is intended to be used to ensure the well-being of people around the globe by managing forthcoming challenges through the innovation and adaptation of sustainable methods while conserving a healthy climate. The SDGs were agreed upon and formalised by the UN in 2015. The aim is to complete the 17 SDGs by 2030 (UN, 2024). This programme has been accepted in developed and developing countries alike. SDG 9 possesses the unique characteristic of having little interaction or overlap with the other 16 goals. Despite this, promoting sustainable industrialisation through innovation has the potential to create synergistic effects with four other SDGs: the reduction of the poverty rate (SDG 1), hunger reduction (SDG 2), ensuring good health and well-being (SDG 3) and ensuring affordable clean energy (SDG 4). To understand how SDG 9 contributes to the aforementioned SDGs, granular observation is needed. The primary point of focus for SDG 9 is resilient infrastructures with two major contributing factors and two major outputs. The contributing factors include the creation of new employment opportunities because a larger workforce is essential for building resilient infrastructures. This aids in reducing poverty and hunger, as outlined by SDGs 1 and 2. Furthermore, environmentally friendly raw materials will also be required to build resilient and sustainable infrastructures. This factor contributes to the health of the climate, which is the prime focus of SDG 4. To understand the uniqueness of SDG 9, the concept of synergies and trade-offs requires further explanation. Synergy consists of correlative interactions in which the progress towards one goal leads to progress towards another goal. In other words, two different goals complement each other as they progress. Inversely, a trade-off is a conflicting correlative interaction in which the progress of one goal hinders the progress of another (Pradhan et al., 2017).

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49597-7_9

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