SDG Goals
A goal aimed to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
What is Zero Hunger/Goal 2?
A type of technology in which the power of the sun is harnessed to produce electricity.
What are Solar Power/Solar Panels oe?
This country that pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017 rejoined in 2021.
The approximate percentage of the Amazon Rainforest that has been destroyed in the last 50 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund.(Data from 2018)
What is 17%?
Adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
What are the SDGs?
A goal aimed to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
What is Clean Water and Sanitation/Goal 6?
A type of technology that involves machine learning and allowing computers/machines to simulate human problem solving and comprehension.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
The UN Commission/Body is responsible for advising the ECOSOC on technological/scientific developments.
What is CSTD (Commission for Science and Technology for Development)?
The approximate of how many children under the age of five died from preventable causes, according to UNICEF estimates
What is 5 million?
The act of making changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products. (Think Goal 9)
What is innovation?
A goal aimed to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
What is Goal 11/ Sustainable Cities and Communities?
A collaboration method between governments and private companies that have shown promise in the development of infrastructure.
What are PPPs (Public Private Partnerships)
This country banned incandescent light bulbs of 15 watts or above for sale, reducing over 200,000,000 tons of emissions.
What is China?
The approximate percentage of children globally who are out of school, focusing on primary education, according to UNESCO.
What is 18%?
An international organisation formed in 1945 currently made up of 193 Member States.
What is the UN?
A goal aimed to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
What is Goal 8/Decent Work and Economic Growth?
A technique that allows plants to be grown without soil.
What are Hydroponics?
This country introduced a microloan/microfinance program, bringing over 600,000 households closer to SDG goals 1, 8, and 10.
What is Myanmar/Burma?
The approximate of how many people were pushed into extreme poverty in 2021, according to WorldBank.
What is 711 million people?
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
What is sustainable development?
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
What is Goal 17/Partnership for the Goals?
A shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network (this could involve cryptocurrency).
What is Blockchain?
Which country has pledged to support the Energy Compact Initiative based on its own National Hydrogen Compact. (Hint: Think German Swiss)
What is Germany?
The approximate number of the global population lacking access to safely managed sanitation services, according to UNICEF/WHO estimates.
What is 4.2 Billion people?
Eight international development goals for the year 2015, adopted in 2000. These goals are the precursors for the SDGs. (Think 2000)
What are the Millennium Development Goals?