UNESCO official highlights her most important summit issues

Marielza Oliveira, director of the UNESCO office in Beijing, shares her expectations and suggestions for the upcoming G20 Leaders Summit with China Daily

Given that the international community is seeking economic and social development through the drive of technological innovation, and given the nature of being an inter-governmental organization that focuses on issues such as science and technology, what are UNESCO's expectations for the G20 Leaders Summit in Hangzhou?

The past half-century has seen uneven global progress. Economies have generally prospered, but the "trickle-down", natural resource-intensive and industry-based development pathway adopted by most countries has shown its limitations, leading to challenges that we can no longer afford to ignore, such as climate change; loss of biodiversity; water, energy and food scarcity; rampant urbanization; inequality; and exclusion.