Presentations

パネルディスカッション 未来社会の構築に必要なテクノロジー／持続可能な未来社会を構築するための企業・自治体のアプローチ 未来社会の構築に欠かせない社会インフラやテクノロジー、実践事例紹介を通じて、企業・自治体の持続可能な取り組みに焦点を当てます。

According to the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), bringing about the transformation required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires facilitating synergies and eliminating trade-offs between different SDGs. Understanding these synergies and trade-offs is critical to assessing progress toward the SDGs through voluntary national reviews and to considering global goals beyond 2030. This session introduces ongoing research on these synergies and trade-offs conducted by some of the institutions where members of the Independent Group of Scientists that drafted the 2023 GSDR are based. Implementation of the SDGs relies on localized actions and local contexts. Therefore, case studies and empirical data on context-specific synergies and trade-offs are critical for drawing lessons on how transformation takes place. This event, which is an initial stage of a project exploring synergies and trade-offs between SDG targets, will showcase examples from Japan, Finland, and Sweden. The event will encourage collaboration and partnerships on accelerating progress toward the SDGs by facilitating synergies and eliminating trade-offs.

サプライチェーン全体で考える必要があるというのは、SDGs達成のために欠かせないことですが、一方で、現実でそれを実現するには大きな変革が必要です。アップルやボルボのようにサプライチェーン全体でサステナブルな取り組みを進めようとする企業が差別化に向かって動き始めていますが、日本の企業の姿がなかなか見えてこないのが現状です。そうした中で取り組みを進めるため、この度サステナビリティ認証の仕組みを進めることとしました。講演ではそのような動きも含めてお話をしたいと思います。

As the theme of the meeting, I have chosen “Creation of Future Orthopaedics: Orthopaedic medical care in the Era of the 100-Year Lifespan.” As people can now expect to live to 100, orthopaedic medical care will have an ever more important role to play in safeguarding the orthopaedic health of the nation’s residents of all generations, and giving them a bright future. Recent years have seen rapid paradigm shifts in medical care, and I hope that this Annual Meeting will offer a venue for serious discussion of issues including the degree to which we can appropriately incorporate novel medical technologies such as artificial intelligence, robots, remote medicine, and the use of big data into orthopaedic medical care, as well as the extent to which we can respond to pressing healthcare policies including the board certification system, reform of doctors’ working practices, and gender equality of doctors. I also want to offer young doctors not only the opportunity to acquire a basic knowledge of orthopaedic surgery, but also a venue where we can show them their possible future directions as orthopaedic surgeons. Although the future course of COVID-19 is unpredictable, we are adopting a hybrid format for this Annual Meeting utilizing information technology suitable for the post-COVID era, so that participants will be able to experience both the traditions of the JOA and its future whether they are taking part in person or online.