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How SDGs address Climate Change as a humanity issue: Goal 13
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Peace and prosperity are about more than a flourishing economy. It all starts with saving the planet. Reducing the amount of climate-related natural disasters and increasing the quality of human health are the major stepping stones on the road to achieving global prosperity and zero hunger.
These goals are on the list of the UN’s highest priorities in addressing climate change. The other priorities include food and security protection, protecting terrestrial and wetland ecosystems, expanding freshwater resources and contributing to key economic sectors and services that directly fund climate change administration. The climate change aspect of Sustainable Development Goals is now more crucial than ever, considering that the pandemic.
According to the UN’s goal to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”, 70-161 million more people had likely experienced hunger in 2020. This does not get any better with recent natural disasters like 2017’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, especially when the global average temperature was 34 degrees F above the pre-industrial baseline in 2020, further contributing to the growing climate crisis. Rising greenhouse gas emissions also contribute to this, and the UN suggests that by 2050, changing global economies will have to become carbon neutral as goal to battle climate change.
But the global climate change conversation is not all about the daily setbacks we face. Between 2015 and 2018, climate finance increased by 10%, which makes its annual average $48.7 billion. This monumental sum arguably reflects the way governments and citizens alike are taking climate change and its domino effect impacts more seriously. With all of this funding, there is hope for real change.
With Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s recent popularity, the question of morality has entered this conversation, making more people aware of just how far-reaching the effects of climate change are if it took a teenager to make government officials wake up to the real crisis that the Earth faces. This saw real progress with the UN’s E-Course on Harnessing Climate and SDGs Synergies, which not only engages policymakers with the effects of climate change but also addresses Sustainable Development Goals as a whole.
The goals can be reached by never letting climate change leave the mainstream conversation, both in society and politics, much in the way Greta Thunberg has done. And when we follow the resources found in Goal 13, educating ourselves is the first step we can do as individuals to fight this crisis that affects not only the Earth but human rights itself.
Water Equality for All
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It’s 2021 and a quarter of the world still does not have access to safe drinking water. That is over 2 billion people. How can we have a world where we witness the greatest accomplishments known to man, yet still have billions of people without access to a basic human need? Luckily, there are global organizations like the United Nations that seek to eliminate this inequality.
With a deadline set for 2030, the UN has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are an urgent call for action by all countries. These goals are meant to be the guidelines for creating sustainability and equality for all. Amongst those 17 goals is providing clean drinking water and sanitation services.
Between 2000 and 2020, there has been considerable progress towards providing safely managed drinking water, however, the Covid-19 virus has made continuing that progress difficult. The UN remains committed to their goals and are still hopeful for their 2030 deadline.
For more information check out this link to the United Nation’s Goal 6 Page: https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal6
Sustainable Development: Gender Equality Empowering Women/Girls
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In September of 2015 United Nations established 17 global goals that are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
In this blog post I will be talking about goal 5. By 2030 the goal is to achieve gender equality, and to empower women and girls worldwide.
Target 5.1 states – “end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere”
As of 2021, COVID-19 has affected the progress of goal #5. Throughout the pandemic women have played a huge role and have held positions as leaders, providers, caregivers and front line workers but are still being underrepresented. To advance gender equality we have to continue efforts in reshaping systems, laws, policies and institutions. However, there are still many discriminatory laws and legal gaps preventing women from gaining their full rights. (United Nations)
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After many years of decline, child marriage is now expected to increase. It had decreased, “by 15 percent, from nearly one in four in 2010 to one in five in 2020” (United Nations). Unfortunately, because of the pandemic about 10 million girls are now at risk for child marriage.
More women now have access to mobile devices, having this tool helps empower social and economic development in women. And finally, to better target resources for gender-responsive recovery, systems like gender-budgeting tools will have to strengthened (United Nations).
Sources: “Goal 5 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs.” United Nations, United Nations, https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal5 and http://E/2021/58 – e – E/2021/58 -Desktop, https://undocs.org/en/E/2021/58 .
Sustainable Development Goals: Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education
The United Nations poses 17 interconnected goals to reach by the year 2030 as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future” (United Nations). While people working towards this may focus primarily on one goal all the goals are connected. Meaning if someone works to support goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production they are also helping with goal 13: Climate Action, though it may not be the goal they intended. All the goals work together to reach a world of peace and prosperity.
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As an educator Goal 4: Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education and Promote Lifelong Learning Opportunities for All, piqued my interest. As with every other aspect of life, this goal was greatly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to gain back the progress in improving education lost to the pandemic, 2021’s Higher Education Sustainability Special Event (an annual) focused on getting the 17 SDGs back on route to their 2030 timeline. While Goal 4 wasn’t the primary goal under the spotlight in 2021, as all SDGs are interlinked, it plays a key role in assisting with the others getting back on track.
Like the HESI Special Event, multiple sessions are arranged throughout the year in order to update progress and raise awareness for supporting the 17 SDGs. Other ways to meet this goal are:
- Promoting an inclusive and equal world for neurodiverse people
- Demand government to support improving education through funding
- Meet with policy makers to share opinions on what should change
- Implementing the SDGs into school curriculum
- Supporting non-hierarchal educational systems
- Work to become educated yourself and share your knowledge
- Spread the word about the SDGs
Reaching these 17 goals is vital to ensuring a peaceful and successful life for future generations. All of the goals, though their own separate entity, are interlinked and help to reach the others. The best way to reach these goals is to spread the word, many people are still unaware of these priorities for the future. In order to take further action we must first shine a light on the SDGs themself.
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Sustainable Developmental Goals
Goal #2: ZERO HUNGER!
A goal of interest to me from the Sustainable Developmental Goals is Zero Hunger!
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A non governmental organization called Rise Against Hunger is focused on Goal #2: Zero Hunger. Rise Against Hunger is working achieve this goal by ensuring access by all people to safe nutritious and sufficient food all year round, wants to end all forms of malnutrition, and ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices. Rise Against Hunger is doing their part to help, and you can too! People are donating everyday on their linked website to help end hunger. See the link to donate here.
We can all do our part to achieve Sustainable Developmental Goal #2 Zero Hunger! Thanks for viewing!
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