On Monday, October 7, in Hamburg City, Germany, Rwanda's Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente attended the opening ceremony of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference. The event gathers policymakers and business leaders to discuss ways to accelerate the performance of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a broad set of targets agreed upon in 2015 to tackle global issues. The 17 categories include poverty, hunger, gender equality, climate change, sustainable production, and economic growth. This two-day conference is attracting around 1,600 participants from more than 100 countries.

On Monday, October 7, in Hamburg City, Germany, Rwanda's Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente attended the opening ceremony of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference.

The event gathers policymakers and business leaders to discuss ways to accelerate the performance of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The SDGs are a broad set of targets agreed upon in 2015 to tackle global issues. The 17 categories include poverty, hunger, gender equality, climate change, sustainable production, and economic growth.

This two-day conference is attracting around 1,600 participants from more than 100 countries.

The aim of the conference is "to strengthen the mutual trust within the global community while showing that global challenges can be overcome with strong international partners."

The inaugural Hamburg Sustainability Conference opened on Monday with the aim of convening experts to discuss the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - a former mayor of the city - attended the opening of the conference, stating that it would "make an important contribution to achieving the sustainability targets because it enables alliances between countries and alliances between the economy, civil society, and science."

A number of national leaders, primarily from the Global South, are in attendance, along with Ajay Bang, president of the World Bank.

Organizers hope the event could become the sustainability industry's counterpart to the Munich Security Conference, the world's largest gathering on foreign and security policy.

Themes to be discussed include climate-neutral shipping, sustainable battery production, and climate finance.

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