Global Issues that

Concern Schools and

Society
Top Ten Global Issues according
to Chloe Turner
1. Climate Change
2. Pollution
3. Violence
4. Security and Well Being
5. Lack of Education
6. Unemployment
7. Government Corruption
8. Malnourishment and hunger
9. Substance Abuse
10. Terrorism
Top Ten Global Issues
 The 10 most critical problems in the world,
according to millennials

O World Economic Forum surveys people

every year about the biggest problems facing
the world.
O Climate change is the millennial generation’s
top concern for the third year in a row.
O Millennials are also concerned about large
scale conflict, wars, and inequality.
 10. Lack of economic opportunity and unemployment
(12.1%)

Chinese workers wait for job opportunities inside a local employment center on
September 18, 2015 in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China. source Kevin Frayer/Getty
 9. Safety / security / well being (14.1%)

A man in Helsinki waves the Finnish flag. Finland is rated one of the happiest countries on
earth, according to the World Happiness Report. source Reuters/Vesa Moilanen
 8. Lack of education (15.9%)

 Students attend school in a temporary classroom in Nepal one year after a 7.8
magnitude earthquake killed more than 9,000 people. source Paula Bronstein/ Getty
 7. Food and water security (18.2%)

A protester in Flint, Michigan, holds up a sign criticizing the city’s water contamination
crisis that became a federal emergency and required aid from the National Guard.
source Bill Pugliano/Getty
 6. Government accountability and transparency / corruption (22.7%)

Demonstrators wear masks depicting Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(L) and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff during a protest calling for the impeachment of
Rousseff near the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, December 13, 2015. source
REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
 5. Religious conflicts (23.9%)

In Germany, Yazidi protesters with friends and family in Iraq and Syria call for action to
stop ISIS’ violent siege. source Carsten Koall/Getty
 4. Poverty (29.2%)

 Weeks before the 2016 Olympic Games commence, children play in a garbage dump in one Rio de
Janeiro’s largest favela complexes, which suffers from poverty and violence. source Mario
Tama/Getty
 3. Inequality (income, discrimination) (30.8%)

The income gap between top and bottom earners is getting wider in the
US. source Spencer Platt/Getty Images
 2. Large scale conflict / wars (38.9%)

Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fire a shell at Islamic
State fighters’ positions in Sirte, Libya August 15, 2016. source Ismail
Zitouny/Reuters
 1. Climate change / destruction of nature (48.8%)

Protesters calling for massive economic and political changes to curb the effects of global
warming hold a sit in around the Wall Street Bull statue on Broadway on September 22,
2014 in New York City. source Andrew Burton/Getty
 Top Ten Global Issues according to millennials
based on World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers
Survey in 2017
1. Climate Change/destruction of nature 48.8%
2. Large scale conflict/wars 38.9%
3. Inequality (income, discrimination) 30.8%
4. Poverty 29.2%
5. Religious conflicts 23.9%
6. Government corruption 22.7%
7. Food and water security 18.2%
8. Lack of education 15.2%
9. Safety/Security/Well being 14.1%
10. Lack of economic opportunity and employment 12.1%
The 17 Sustainable Development
Goals for the period 2015-2030
 The 17 Sustainable Development
Goals for the period 2015-2030
1. End poverty in all its form everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all
ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and
promote life-long learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water
and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and
modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive employment and decent work
for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and
sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within among countries
11. Make cities and human settlement inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact ( in
line with the United Nations Frameworks Convention on Climate
Change)
14. Conserve and sustainably use the ocean seas, and marine
resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification,
and halt reverse land degradation and half biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build
effective, accountable and inclusive institution at all level
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global
partnership for sustainable development
 QUESTION!
O Poverty is ranked #4 among the top 10 issues cited by
World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Survey in 2017.
Education is supposed to liberate people from poverty.
O The Philippines has a comparatively higher literacy rate.
How come the Philippines has one of the highest number
of educated people and yet we remain to be “islands of
affluence amidst a sea of poverty” meaning poverty
abounds?
 Reflect!
OCan this be traced to poor quality
of Philippine education? Why? Or
Why not?