HyaPak was selected as one of ten projects worldwide featured by the UN
Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on
Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.
The forum is the UN’s annual stocktake on which technologies are actually
moving the SDG needle. To be one of ten projects highlighted — across health,
clean energy, food systems and circular economy — is a strong external signal
that hyacinth-to-packaging belongs in the same conversation as those other
sectors, not as a curiosity.
Which SDGs we move
- SDG 12 — Responsible consumption & production: a biodegradable alternative to single-use plastics.
- SDG 13 — Climate action: ~1.6 kg CO₂ offset per seedling wrapper vs. plastic.
- SDG 14 — Life below water: hyacinth removed from lakes that depend on it.
- SDG 15 — Life on land: our wrappers feed Jaza Miti’s reforestation drive.
- SDG 8 — Decent work: paid green jobs for lakeside communities.
The recognition came with a brief on what UN-aligned scale looks like — the kind
of question we’re now answering with the Young Champion seed funding and
new investor conversations.