Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
This Goal brings together a range of targets aimed at supporting innovation and enhancing infrastructure, including support for: financial services and affordable credit; the greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and processes; scientific research and technological development; universal and affordable access to the internet.
Goal Targets
9.4 By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
9.5 Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending