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Technology, science and capacity building are major pillars of the Means of Implementation of the Post-2015 Agenda and of the Rio+20 follow-up processes. The research, development, deployment, and widespread diffusion of environmentally sound technologies in the context of a Green Economy is also closely linked to other core elements and means of implementation, including innovation, business opportunities and development, trade of environmental goods and services, finance and investment, and institutional capabilities.

In order to eradicate poverty and reorient current unsustainable development trajectories over the period 2015 to 2030, affordable technological solutions have to be developed and disseminated widely in the next fifteen years. The Means of Implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda could nevertheless provide an opportunity to address some of the gaps hindering the facilitation and transfer of these technologies.

In 2012, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20”) called for identifying technology facilitation mechanism. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda, in its paragraph 123, decided to establish a technology facilitation mechanism. The mechanism will be launched at the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda in order to support the sustainable development goals.

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Major Group: Women Co-chairs' meetings with Major Groups 10-Dec-2013
Nepal Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Republic of Korea Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Addressing the Technology Divides: Critical Issues in Technology and SDGs Co-chairs' meetings with Major Groups 10-Dec-2013
European Union Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
South Centre Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Denmark, Norway and Ireland Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Major Group: Indigenous Peoples Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Bulgaria and Croatia Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Brazil and Nicaragua Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
China, Indonesia and Kazakhstan Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Sweden Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Republic of Korea Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 10-Dec-2013
Canada, Israel and United States of America Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 9-Dec-2013