Integrating - Science & Technology in Sustainable development.

1. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
- AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
Presented by -
Jacqueline Saira Korah
B.Sc. Chemistry – 1st year
Bharata Mata College, Cochin

2. ROLE OF SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY IN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Science and technology is helping in tackling some of the
world’s largest problems and is therefore a key enabler of
key enabler of sustainable development. However,
However, sustainable development is not just technological. In
technological. In order to achieve sustainable development,
development, technology must work with political institutions
political institutions to solve social, economic, and
economic, and environmental issues that concern
concern sustainability. This means that technology will only
technology will only unleash its full potential if the other
potential if the other enablers are working alongside

3. SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Though visions of sustainability vary across
regions and circumstances, a broad
international agreement has emerged that its
goals should be to foster a transition toward
development paths that meet human needs
while preserving the earth’s life support
systems and alleviating hunger and poverty –
i.e., that integrate the three pillars of
environmental, social and economic
sustainability

4. ROLE OF SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY
IN SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION
Using science and technology, we can
mitigate or adapt to the challenges of
sustainable development. When adapting to
these issues with the aid of technology,
we are altering our current method of
completing actions in order to account for
unsustainability.
There are three key types of technologies
when it comes to technological
applications for sustainable solutions:
Materials science,
Digital technology, and
Geoengineering.

5. MATERIAL SCIENCE
Main subject of focus:
Chemistry
•Deals with the chemical
applications of the
properties of matter
•Concerned with building
connections between a
material’s structure, its
properties, its use, and its
processing patterns

6. DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGY
Main subjects of focus:
Computer science and Physics
•Handles interconnected solutions
to improve economic growth
•Improves the quality of life and
societal well-being by upgrading
infrastructure and public
utilities and services
•Smart cities combine multiple
smart technologies using IoT to
provide a more sustainable urban

7. GEO-ENGINEERING
Main subjects of focus:
Biology and Earth Sciences
•Involves re-engineering the
biosphere to fit our needs
•Some solutions include
artificial trees, reflecting the
sunlight back into space before
it makes contact with the ground,
and creating a heat shield to
absorb warming impacts in the
upper atmosphere

8. INTEGRATING …..
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
MODERN-DAY SOLUTIONS
The meaning and application of
technology has changed over the
years. In 1870, it meant steam
engines and cotton gins. In 1973,
it meant the first handheld mobile
phone. In today’s world, it means
accessibility and reliability as a
response to the sustainability
crisis.

9. BIOPLASTIC
Researchers from the University of Maryland
and Yale have made a breakthrough by
creating a bioplastic that is entirely
wood-based.
This scientific feat also ensures that the
bioplastic is developed using a
biodegradable solvent that can deconstruct
the wood powder found in lumber mills into
a semiliquid mixture. This can then be
molded into any item that had previously
been made using plastic.

10. MATERIALS FROM
BANANA PLANT
An innovative startup in Uganda that is
using banana plant material to create
consumer products. The edible banana plant
material that is being used is a material
that would have otherwise gone to waste.
The reason that this usage of this
particular previously wasted material is
especially important in Uganda is because
Uganda is the leading producer of bananas
and plantains in sub-Saharan Africa, as
nearly 75% of farmers there grow some sort
of banana.

11. SMART CITIES
Sustainable smart cities are the
future.
Smart city solutions include IoT-
connected lights, sensors, and cameras
to bolster citizen welfare,
infrastructure, and public utilities
and services.
Smart cities and improve the quality of
life of residents, and they use many
different technologies in order to
achieve that.

12. BULLET TRAIN
The Maglev train in Shanghai is an example
of a sustainable solution.
Using superconducting magnets to levitate
above the tracks, the idea of using the
repelling energy of magnets (when two
magnets’ matching poles are facing each
other, they repel one another) to make
advancements in transportation may become a
more common one over the coming years.
Magnetic attraction and repulsion are at
work here due to quantum levitation.

13. GENETIC ENGINEERING
Genetic engineering has had a tremendous
impact on society in the 21st century.
Genetic engineering is a field which may
encourage sustainable development or
promote unsustainable practices in multiple
industries. Going forward, experts foresee
genetic engineering eradicating certain
diseases (down syndrome, cystic fibrosis,
and muscular dystrophy) and discovering the
genetic traits required for metastatic
cancer.

14. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY &
SUSTAINABILITY
Science & Technology is recognized to be central to both the
origins of sustainability challenges, and to the prospects for
successfully dealing with them.
Science and technology brought us the CFCs that preserved our
foods, cooled our homes… and depleted the ozone layer.
Science & Technology also played a central role in bringing about
the increases in agricultural yields and distribution systems that
have helped to keep the most of the world from famine… but only
at the cost of significant environmental degradation.

15. BALANCING ACT
Sustainability itself is
a normative concept.
In fact, it would be more
apt to call it an ideal.
Once we characterize
sustainability, we can
identify which solutions
can be applied in order
to progress in
sustainable development.

16. THANK YOU
- Jacqueline Saira Korah