Global Challenges Today
When the earth gets hotter, it is called this.
What is climate change?
When people use more resources than the Earth can replace, it is called this.
What is overconsumption?
This form of malnutrition is when a child is too short for their age.
What is stunting?
Equal status and opportunity for women and men (girls and boys) is known as this.
What is "Gender Equality"?
This agreement in 2015 was made to fight climate change.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This global day, celebrated every April 22, is dedicated to protecting the planet.
What is Earth Day?
By 2030, the world must end this issue that affects access to safe and nutritious food.
What is hunger?
This harmful practice affects millions of girls worldwide, often fueled by poverty.
What is "Child Marriage"?
Child marriage and gender-based violence are two major barriers to achieving this global challenge.
What is gender equality?
Using bags, bottles, and straws more than once is an example of this “3R” principle.
What is reuse?
The UN Food Waste Index (2021) found this many million tonnes of food wasted yearly.
931
SDG 10 addresses reducing these differences across groups like income, age, race, and gender also known as this.
What is "Inequality"?
The idea that no one should be left behind in the global goals agenda is called this principle.
What is Leaving No One Behind?
This Scandinavian country consistently ranks highest on the UN’s SDG Index.
What is Finland?
Indicator 2.3.1 measures this aspect of farming productivity.
What is volume of production per labour unit?
About 3 in 10 people with this condition report personal discrimination.
What is "Disability"?
This small island nation was the first country to declare a climate emergency in 2019.
What is New Zealand?
This international report, released in 1987, first defined “sustainable development” as meeting today’s needs without harming future generations.
What is the Brundtland Report?
Name one of the two major reasons why the Laos-China train has not boosted Laotian exports.
China's zero-COVID policies or structural trade barriers
List two groups particularly affected by inequalities in access to healthcare or opportunities.
Women and Children / Refugees / Migrants / Older persons