Earth Day Teach In

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The Sustainable Development Goals


 For the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have saved millions of human lives and lifted large sections of people in developing countries out of poverty. However, conflicts, environmental destruction, inequalities persist or even worsen. States have not fully fulfilled their commitments.
Giving everyone around the world the help people need to lift themselves out of poverty in all its forms is the essence of sustainable development. Let’s look at the first six goals.

Goal 1: No Poverty
Goal 1 focuses on poverty eradication through interrelated strategies, including the development of social protection systems, decent jobs and building the resilience of the poor.
Goal 2: No Hunger
Objective 2 responds to a basic human need, access to a nutritious and healthy food, and the means to guarantee it sustainable for all. Hunger cannot be alleviated simply by increasing food production. Good market functioning increased income for smallholder farmers, equal access to technology and land, additional investment, all of these factors play a role in creating a vibrant and productive agricultural sector that strengthens security food.

Goal 3: Access to health
Goal 3 addresses all major health priorities and calls for improved reproductive, maternal and child health; to put an end to communicable diseases; to reduce no communicable diseases and other health risks; and to ensure universal access to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines and vaccines, as well as health coverage.

Goal 4: Access to quality education
Goal 4 aims to ensure that everyone has access to quality education and lifelong learning opportunities. This objective goes beyond schooling and includes proficiency levels, the availability of qualified teachers, adequate school facilities and disparities in educational outcomes.

Goal 5: Gender Equality
Gender inequalities persist throughout the world, depriving women and girls of their most basic rights and undermining the opportunities available to them. More vigorous efforts are needed to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, including in legal terms, to address deep-seated gender discrimination, which is often the result of patriarchal attitudes and norms. related social issues.

Goal 6:Clean Water and Sanitation
Goal 6 aims to address the challenges of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for the population, as well as the issues related to aquatic ecosystems. In the absence of sustainable and high-quality water and sanitation, progress in a number of other areas of sustainable development goals, including health, education and poverty reduction, will also be delayed.

The United Nations put together list of things you can do in your everyday life to contribute to a sustainable future. What if we start now!


resources:
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/


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