{"id":24448,"date":"2017-03-02T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=24448"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:54:29","slug":"sharktank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2017\/03\/sharktank\/","title":{"rendered":"The stars of Shark Tank show support for the Sustainable Development Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Sharks&#8221; know a thing or two about the power of innovation and what it can do for sustainability, and they are encouraging everyone to make an impact on the Sustainable Development Goals with fresh ideas on how to end poverty, reduce inequality and tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:800px;--awb-max-height:467px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:58.38%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NF_Lo0mrBro?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Innovation is also the main focus of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalfestivalofideas.org\/\">Â鶹APP Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development<\/a>, taking place this week in Bonn, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival showcases the latest innovations, tools and approaches to SDG implementation, while building synergies, increasing mutual understanding, developing solutions and mobilising partnerships and resources to drive action for sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include <a href=\"http:\/\/alaamurabit.com\/\"><strong>Alaa Murabit<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong>leading international advocate for inclusive peace processes and UN SDG Advocate, <strong>Sarah Poole, <\/strong>Deputy Assistant Administrator, UNDP, <strong>Meng Zhaoli,<\/strong> Chief Economist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tencent.com\/en-us\/\">Tencent<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s biggest internet companies, <strong>David Donoghue<\/strong>, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the Â鶹APP and <strong>Kumi Naidoo, <\/strong>Launch Director, Africans Rising For Justice, Peace and Dignity. Find out more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalfestivalofideas.org\/\">https:\/\/globalfestivalofideas.org\/<\/a><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[fusion_youtube id=\"NF_Lo0mrBro\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" autoplay=\"no\" api_params=\"\" class=\"\"]\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-partnerships","category-infrastructure","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}