Introduction - Are you ready to be a Sustainability Maker?
In this introductory module, you will have the opportunity to learn about the concepts and importance of sustainable development, the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals through interactive presentations and mini-games.
SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
This goal focuses on eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere, measured as people living on less than $2.15 a day. It also aims to reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
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SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
This goal seeks to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030, ensuring all people–especially children–have access to sufficient and nutritious food all year round. This involves promoting sustainable agricultural practices and supporting small-scale farmers to double agricultural productivity and incomes.
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SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
The objective of this goal is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. It includes reducing the global maternal mortality ratio, ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, and combating various diseases.
SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
This goal is about ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. It seeks to ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education.
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
This goal aims to end all forms of discrimination, violence, and harmful practices against all women and girls everywhere. It seeks to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life.
SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
This goal aims to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water and adequate sanitation and hygiene for all. It also targets to improve water quality by reducing pollution and increasing water-use efficiency.
SDG 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
The goal here is to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services. It also aims to increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
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SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
This goal promotes sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. It includes achieving higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading, and innovation.
SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
This goal aims to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation. It seeks to increase the access to information and communications technology and provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries.
SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
This goal seeks to reduce inequality within and among countries by ensuring equal opportunity and reducing inequalities of outcome. This includes progressively achieving and sustaining income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population at a rate higher than the national average.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable)
This goal aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. It seeks to ensure access for all to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services, and to upgrade slums.
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
This goal is about ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. It promotes resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs, and a better quality of life for all.
SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
This goal seeks to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It acknowledges that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
This goal is about conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas, and marine resources. It aims to prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, and to protect and restore ecosystems.
SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
This goal aims to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss. This includes implementing sustainable management of all types of forests, halting deforestation, restoring degraded forests, and increasing afforestation and reforestation.
SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
This goal promotes peaceful and inclusive societies, provides access to justice for all, and builds effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. It seeks to reduce all forms of violence, and work with governments and communities to find lasting solutions to conflict and insecurity.
SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
This goal aims to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. It encourages and promotes effective public, public-private, and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.
Evaluation - Are you a Sustainability Maker?
Are you a Sustainability Maker? This module will help you to revisit the fundamental concept of being a Sustainability Maker, refreshing your understanding of what it entails.