The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a Global Action Plan – Significance for Germany and Great Britain

A presentation by Dr Dina Barbian, Institute for Sustainability, Nuremberg.

As Ban Ki-moon (United Nations Secretary-General, 2007 to 2016) stated in 2012 at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) “We don’t have plan B because there is no planet B!”. Now is the time to take the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serious and to unite all efforts for people, planet and prosperity.
Dina Barbian will start her talk with an explanation of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals established for 15 years until 2030. These goals (also known as Agenda 2030) are part of Resolution 70/1 of the United Nations General Assembly.
The SDGs cover social, environmental and economic development issues including poverty, hunger, health, education, global warming, gender equality, water and sanitation, energy, urbanization and social justice.
Dr. Barbian will describe the status of the SDGs in Germany and in Great Britain, focusing not only on similarities but also on differences.
How can a city such as Nürnberg or any other region measure their performance in SDGs? And what can be done by each and every one of us in order that we live sustainably?
All these questions will be discussed during this presentation.

Dr. Dina Barbian – a brief Bio

Dr. Dina Barbian holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. After completing her Master’s degree she worked in the field of ecological process technology before deciding to continue her career in academia through writing her doctoral thesis on “Economics and Sustainable Development – An Approach on the Implementation of Sustainability” (TU Kaiserslautern).
Since 1998 Dr. Barbian has been working as a Research Assistant at the Chair for Information Systems at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. She currently researches different fields of information systems and sustainable development.
In 2011, 2012 and 2013 Dr. Barbian was a Visiting Professor at Aarhus Summer University (Denmark), in 2014 at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria), and in 2018 at the School of Science and Technology in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina).
In 2012, Dr. Barbian founded the Institute for Sustainability in Nürnberg, which offers individualized Sustainability Services within the field of digitalization and sustainability (Robotics in Healthcare and Elderly Care, Drones in Agriculture and Logistics, Autonomuous Driving, Cyber-physical Systems).
Dr. Barbian lectures at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg and FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management in Nürnberg, on a variety of different subjects, including
• “Sustainable Development and National Strategies”
• “Supply Chain Management”
• “Corporate Ethics”
• “IT Strategies & Trends”
• “Digitalization & Sustainability”