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Editorial WJSTSD 14,4 Private public partnerships (PPPs) as a policy tool to achieve the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Introduction We are pleased to present the final issue of the World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WJSTSD) for 2017. As the flagship journal of the World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD), we are also pleased to see the journal developing itself extremely well across the world and spark a new debate on policy issues relating to the role of science, technology and innovation for achieving sustainable development (SD). There is a continuous interest to highlight that a successful SD agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society. In recognition of this, at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, in September 2015, a set of 17 goals were formulated to transform our world by 2030 through SD. Among these goals notably, Goal 17 acknowledged that actions were needed to mobilize, redirect and unlock the transformative power of trillions of dollars of private resources to deliver on SD objectives. As such, highlighting the need for private-public partnerships (PPPs) to be used as a policy tool to support the desire of governments around the world to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development Emerald Publishing

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WJSTSD 14,4 Private public partnerships (PPPs) as a policy tool to achieve the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Introduction We are pleased to present the final issue of the World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WJSTSD) for 2017. As the flagship journal of the World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD), we are also pleased to see the journal developing itself extremely well across the world and spark a new debate on policy issues relating to the role of science, technology and innovation for achieving sustainable development (SD). There is a continuous interest to highlight that a successful SD agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society. In recognition of this, at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, in September 2015, a set of 17 goals were formulated to transform our world by 2030 through SD. Among these goals notably, Goal 17 acknowledged that actions were needed to mobilize, redirect and unlock the transformative power of trillions of dollars of private resources to deliver on SD objectives. As such, highlighting the need for private-public partnerships (PPPs) to be used as a policy tool to support the desire of governments around the world to

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Published: Oct 2, 2017

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