The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise
known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to
end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people
enjoy peace and prosperity.
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to
achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They
address the global challenges we face, including poverty,
inequality, climate change, environmental degradation,
peace and justice. Encourages us to Learn more and take
action.
Why we are here? Aside from the Kick off Activity for the
International EW This event, will let you be familiarized
with the 2030 Project of the United Nations. It is a great
way for you students to do your part, as we transform the
world!
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by
all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a
shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and
the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an
urgent call for action by all countries - developed and
developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that
ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-
hand with strategies that improve health and education,
reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while
tackling climate change and working to preserve our
oceans and forests.
“I believe that if WE show people the problems and WE
show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”
— Bill Gates, business magnate and philanthropist
Act now, because sometimes LATER
becomes NEVER.
“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat ….to human
security everywhere.”
Kofi Annan, Seventh Secretary-General of the United
Nations.
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
— Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader
“Poverty is like punishment for a crime ,,,,you ,,,,didn't
commit.”
— Eli Khamarov, writer
SDG 1 aims to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. Its
objectives include ensuring that the entire population and
especially the poorest and most vulnerable have equal
rights to economic resources, access to basic services,
property and land control, natural resources and new
technologies. Globally, the number of people living in
extreme poverty declined from 36 per cent in 1990 to 10
per cent in 2015. But the pace of change is decelerating
and the COVID-19 crisis risks reversing decades of
progress in the fight against poverty. New research
published by the UNU World Institute for Development
Economics Research warns that the economic fallout from
the global pandemic could increase global poverty by as
much as half a billion people, or 8% of the total human
population. This would be the first time that poverty has
increased globally in thirty years, since 1990.
1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently
measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 By 2030, 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
1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures
for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor
and the vulnerable
1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the
vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic
services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property,
inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial
services, including microfinance
1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations
and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events
and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.A Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources,
including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide
adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least
developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in
all its dimensions
1.B Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international
levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to
support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
“There is enough in the world for everyone's
need, but not for everyone's greed.”
— Frank Buchman, Protestant evangelist
