Sustainability

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals

When the term "Sustainable Development Goals", what is the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe you think about the bright color color wheel or cute icons that represent the 17 different goals? Perhaps you think about global warming, green energy, and the political movement surrounding climate change? Regardless of what the term makes you think about, what do you actually know about it?

In 2015, the United Nations agreed upon 17 goals they wanted to work towards reaching wihtin 2030. These goals where the Sustainanle Development Goals (SDGs). These goals are linked together, and are meant to be a plan for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, both in the prenest and for the future. The goals are as follows:

  1. No Poverty
  2. Zero Hunger
  3. Good Health and Well-being
  4. Quality Education
  5. Gender Equality
  6. Clean Water and Sanitation
  7. Affordable and Clean Energy
  8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
  9. Industry, Innovation and Infrestructure
  10. Reduced Inequalities
  11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
  12. Responsible Consumption and Production
  13. Climate Action
  14. Life Below Water
  15. Life on Land
  16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  17. Partenship for the Goals
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Each goal has an action plan with specific targets to provide indicators of the progress made. Most targets are to be archived by 2030, although some have no end date. Countries, corporations, organizations and communities all have a role to play for the world to reach these goals. Some goals are harder then others, and some of them can even seem impossible. But even you can make a difference! If everyone does their part, small and every-day contributions can change the world.

For this webpage we will focus on goal 13: "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". The fist step towards taking action is to be more informed on the issue. The purpose of this website is to raise awareness around the sustainability goals and climate action, and what you can do to make an impact.

What can we do?

You may have aready noticed that this website is very simple and has very few images. The reason for this is that the more complicated a webpage is, the less sustainable it is. Activly choosing to use fewer images is something we have done to to ccombat climate change. Collectively, the web accounts for around 2% of all greenhouse gas emissions. That’s equivalent to the entire country of Germany, the sixth highest polluting country in the world. What we have done is very small, but if everyone making a webpage did this, the impact could become a lot bigger very quickly. Just like this webpage having few images, there are other small things you can do to make an impact.

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