Our Scans · (LF.17) Partnerships for the Goals · Weekly Summary

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

• [New] The Manitoba Metis Federation plans to build 30 to 35 windmills just north of Neepawa as part of the Fleury Winds project, in partnership with U.K.-based Renewable Energy Systems Limited. National Wind Watch
• [New] Rebuilding Ukraine will require significant resources, institutional resilience, strong governance, and global partnership. World Bank Group
• [New] In partnership with Expedia Group, users in the U.S. will have access to a wide selection of hotels, ultimately growing to more than 700,000 properties in destinations around the globe. Uber
• [New] Cure Blindness Project and The Fred Hollows Foundation announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the elimination of avoidable blindness in Rwanda and Laos by 2035, while addressing cataract backlogs in additional countries. PentaVision
• [New] The U.S. government has acknowledged that utilities are not willing to take on the financial risk themselves, and a public-private partnership model is needed to kick-start the next building cycle. / USA Sprott ETFs
• [New] Iran aligned more closely with Russia and China in hopes that great power partnership would raise the cost of Western action and create strategic insurance. Manara Magazine
• [New] Smackover Lithium, the partnership between Standard Lithium and Equinor developing the SWA Project, will supply Trafigura with 8,000 metric tonnes per year of battery-quality lithium carbonate over a 10-year period, beginning at the start of commercial production. BNN Bloomberg
• [New] Nvidia announced in September that it was investing $5 billion in a partnership where Intel is expected to make custom chips for Nvidia. Gizmodo
• [New] Anthropic emerged as one of the week's most aggressive AI infrastructure spenders, announcing a major compute partnership with SpaceX that will provide access to hundreds of megawatts of data-center capacity and massive GPU clusters. Dwealth.news
• [New] The EU will undoubtedly use its partnership with South Africa as a template for how it will roll out and structure its Global Gateway framework across the African continent. ISI
• [New] By maintaining structured channels for legitimate engagement, Arctic middle powers could reduce incentives for China to rely exclusively on Russian partnership for access to northern resources, infrastructure, and shipping routes. ArcticToday
• [New] Insilico's $120 million partnership with Qilu Pharmaceutical will result in the development of cardiometabolic therapies. Deepgram
• [New] The partnership with US defence company Anduril Industries will use Rocket Lab's HASTE testbed suborbital launch vehicle. BusinessDesk
• [New] The DeltaQuad manufacturing partnership, while accelerating production, concentrates a critical supply node in the Netherlands, a geography that adversary intelligence services will likely map as a targeting priority in any escalation scenario. Drone Warfare
• Fraud has become the defining threat of the digital age, and the UK Government has rightly recognised that meaningful progress in the fight against fraud requires effective partnership between states, law enforcement, regulators and the private sector. Mishcon de Reya LLP
• The 20-year partnership with RAW Charging will include the development of the UK's largest destination EV charging hub at Kent's Bluewater shopping center. Property Week
• The implementation of the Canada-Indonesia partnership agreement will be supported by a whole-of-government approach that combines trade promotion, on-the-ground support and close cooperation with Canadian businesses. SenCanada
• SWIFT's tokenized asset settlement experiments, conducted in partnership with more than a dozen major global banks including Citi, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank, demonstrated that existing SWIFT messaging infrastructure could be used to instruct settlement across multiple blockchain networks. yellow.com
• Japan Airlines has announced (1) a partnership with a Japanese robotics company which it hopes will result in humanoid robots handling luggage and cargo. Yahoo Finance
• Google has signed a strategic partnership with company Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which is racing to build a donut-shaped machine called a tokamak that could eventually generate 10 million times the energy of coal or natural gas, all without greenhouse gas emissions. CNN
• New partnership accelerates NHS patients' access to new medicines and will see UK benefit from greater life sciences industry investment. GOV.UK
• IBM and Arm announced a new partnership Thursday that will attempt to bridge the gap between mainframe hardware, which an ever-diminishing number of people understand how to run, and Arm's hardware and software, which is growing very quickly inside cloud providers like AWS. Runtime

Last updated: 18 May 2026