Technosolutions
across the world, silent and ceaseless crises regarding public health and environmental degradation urgently require the mobilisation of global science and technology. Gearing technological innovation towards solving the crises, by meeting the needs of the poor and the environment in which they live, is among the most critical challenges of the 21st century.
For many years, since the release of the Brundtlant Commission report in 1987, the international community has recognised that problems related to poverty and the environment are inextricably linked. Indeed, the issues of poverty and environmental decline were central to all the major UN conferences of the 1990s