Towards the SDGs: An Analysis of Australia-India Research Collaborations uses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a lens to examine past and ongoing research collaborations between Australian university researchers and their counterparts in India.
Strategic Context
The Australian Government has made commitments in its National Sustainable Development Goals Summits of 2016 and 2018 towards achieving key targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda across states, cities, and regional communities. The Government of India has also embraced the United Nations SDGs as a strategic framework for addressing the nation’s diverse socio-economic challenges. It has integrated the SDGs into its national development agenda and formulated a priority index of 62 key indicators to achieve India’s SDG targets by 2030 at both national and state levels.