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    The UN established 17 sustainable development goals in 2015 to be achieved by 2030. The goals address social, economic and environmental issues including poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, clean water/sanitation, affordable energy, economic growth, industry/infrastructure, inequality, sustainable cities, responsible consumption, climate action, life below water, life on land, peace/justice, and partnerships. The goals aim to end poverty and hunger, improve health/education, reduce inequality, spur economic growth, and combat climate change among other global challenges over the next 15 years.

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    The UN established 17 sustainable development goals in 2015 to be achieved by 2030. The goals address social, economic and environmental issues including poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, clean water/sanitation, affordable energy, economic growth, industry/infrastructure, inequality, sustainable cities, responsible consumption, climate action, life below water, life on land, peace/justice, and partnerships. The goals aim to end poverty and hunger, improve health/education, reduce inequality, spur economic growth, and combat climate change among other global challenges over the next 15 years.

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    The 17 sustainable development goals

    Introduction:
    - UN: better and more sustainable future for all, (to) create
    - three dimensions of SDGs: social, economic and environmental, (to) have
    - 2015, (to) set goals
    - 2030 goals, (to) reach goals

    Goal 1: No poverty
    Facts:
    - poverty is more than the lack of income: hunger and malnutrition, limited access to
    Education, (to) comprise
    - 783 million people below the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day, (to) live
    - most people below the poverty line: Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, (to) be found
    Targets by 2030:
    - reduce poverty by half
    - poor people: vulnerability to climate change and other economic, social and
    environmental shocks and disasters, (to) protect against
    - development cooperation, (to) increase

    Goal 2: Zero hunger


    Facts:
    - globally one in nine humans, (to) be undernourished
    - in developing countries 12.9 per cent of the population, (to be) undernourished
    - small farms: nearly 80 per cent of food consumed in the developing world, (to) produce
    Targets by 2030:
    - hunger, (to) end
    - access to food all year round, (to) ensure
    - agricultural productivity of small-scale food producers, (to) double

    Goal 3: Good health and well-being


    Facts:
    - more than five million children: death before their fifth birthday each year, (to) suffer
    - poor children: almost twice as likely to die before the age of five, than wealthier children,
    (to) be
    - children of mothers who went to primary school: better chance to survive, (to) have
    Targets by 2030:
    - maternal mortality, (to) reduce
    - epidemics (e.g. AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria), (to) end
    - number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents, (to) halve by 2020
    - health care for all

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    Goal 4: Quality education
    Facts:
    - quality education: foundation (basis) to creating sustainable development, (to) be
    - education: less poverty, better jobs, less inequality, (to) mean
    - sub-Saharan Africa: no school for more than half of the children; (to) exist
    Targets by 2030:
    - free quality primary and secondary education for boys and girls
    - reading and writing skills for all youth and a substantial proportion of adults
    - more qualified teachers through international cooperation for teacher training in
    developing countries

    Goal 5: Gender equality


    Facts:
    - 18 countries: husbands can legally prevent their wives from working
    - 39 countries: no equal inheritance rights for daughters and sons, (to) exist
    - 49 countries: no laws protecting women from domestic violence, (to) have
    Targets by 2030:
    - all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, (to) end
    - violence against women and girls, (to) stop
    - women’s participation in leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic
    and public life, (to) ensure

    Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation


    Facts:
    - 3 in 10 people: no access to safe drinking water, (to) have
    - 4 billion people: no access to toilets or latrines, (to) have
    - Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related
    diarrheal diseases.
    Targets by 2030:
    - fair access to safe and affordable drinking water, (to) establish
    - access to sanitation and hygiene for all, (to) achieve
    - open defecation, (to) stop
    - better water quality: pollution (hazardous chemicals, untreated wastewater), (to) avoid

    Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy


    Facts:
    - 13% of the global population: no access to electricity, (to) have
    - 3 billion people: wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating, (to) use
    - burning fuels indoors: 4.3 million deaths in 2012, (to) cause
    - fossil fuels: main cause for climate change, (to) be

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    Targets by 2030:
    - access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services, (to) provide
    - share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, (to) increase
    - energy efficiency and energy infrastructure, (to) increase

    Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth


    Facts:
    - half the world’s population: about US$2 a day, (to) live on
    - quality jobs which do not harm the environment, (to) create
    - global gender pay gap: 23 per cent globally, (to) be
    -Targets by 2030:
    Targets:
    - by 2020: substantially youth unemployment, (to) reduce
    - immediate action: against forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking, and child
    labour, recruitment and use of child soldiers, (to) take
    - by 2025 child labour, (to) end

    Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure


    Facts:
    - Investments in: infrastructure (transport, irrigation, energy, information and
    communication technology, sanitation, electricity) for jobs, health and education, (to) be
    important
    - developing countries: barely 30 per cent of agricultural production processed, (to) be
    - least developed countries: immense potential for industrialization in food industry, (to)
    have
    Targets:
    - development of quality, reliable and sustainable infrastructure in developing countries
    through financial and technological support, (to) stimulate
    - technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, (to) support
    - universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020 (!), (to)
    provide

    Goal 10: Reduced inequalities


    Facts:
    - differences in income between and within countries, (to) exist
    - inequality: growth, (to) harm
    - inequality: poverty, (to) increase
    Targets by 2030:
    - social, economic and political inclusion of all, (to) promote
    - discriminatory laws, (to) eliminate
    - official development assistance to least developed countries, (to) give

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    Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
    Facts:
    - urban challenges: congestion, lack of funds to provide basic services, a shortage of
    adequate housing, declining infrastructure and rising air pollution, (to) be
    - rapid urban expansion in the developing world, (to) take place
    - rapid urban expansion: fresh water supplies, sewage, the environment, and public
    health, (to) put pressure on
    Targets by 2030:
    - negative environmental impact of cities, (to) reduce
    - access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services, (to) ensure
    - access to safe, affordable and sustainable transport systems for all, (to) provide
    - road safety and public transport, (to) improve

    Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production


    Facts:
    - water pollution by man: faster than nature can recycle and purify water in rivers and lakes,
    (to) be
    - households: 29 per cent of global energy, (to) consume
    - households: 21 per cent CO2 emissions, (to) contribute
    - renewable energy: in 2015 17.5% of final energy consumption; (to) cover
    Targets by 2030:
    - “doing more and better with less”
    - resource use in production, (to) decrease
    - less pollution along the whole life cycle of a product, (to) cause
    - adequate product information through standards and labels, (to) provide

    Goal 13: Climate action


    Facts:
    - climate change: every country on every continent, (to) affect
    - poorest people, (to) be affected most
    - weather patterns, (to) change
    - weather events: more extreme, (to) become
    Targets by 2030:
    - resilience (Widerstandsfähigkeit) and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural
    disasters in all countries, (to) strengthen
    - national politics: climate change measures, strategies and planning, (to) integrate into
    - education on climate change, (to) improve
    - effects of climate change: financial help for developing countries, (to) provide

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    Goal 14: Life below water
    Facts:
    - oceans: essential global resource for the support of over 3 billion people (e.g. fishing), (to)
    be
    - oceans: about 30 per cent of carbon dioxide produced by humans, (to) absorb
    - pollution: eutrophication of coastal waters, (to) cause
    Targets:
    - marine pollution of all kinds (plastics, nutrient pollution), (to) reduce by 2025
    - overfishing, (to) end by 2020
    - conservation and sustainable use of oceans by international law; (to) implement
    (umsetzen)

    Goal 15: Life on land


    Facts:
    - forests: climate change, (to) combat
    - 1.6 billion people: forests for their livelihood, (to) depend on
    - 52 per cent of the land used for agriculture: soil degradation (Bodenverschlechterung), (to)
    be affected by
    - droughts and desertification: 23 hectares per minute, (to) be lost
    Targets by 2030:
    - ecosystems, (to) protect and restore
    - forests, (to) manage sustainable
    - desertification, (to) fight
    - biodiversity loss, (to) halt

    Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions


    Facts:
    - justice system and police: corruption, (to) be affected most
    - birth registration: only 46% of Sub-Saharan Africans, (to) have
    - 31% of all prisoners: detention (Haft) without sentencing, (to) be held in
    Targets by 2030:
    - all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere, (to) reduce
    - abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children, (to)
    end
    - equal access to justice for all, (to) provide
    - corruption and bribery, (to) reduce

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    Goal 17: Partnership for the goals
    Facts:
    - partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society : successful
    sustainable development , (to) be needed for
    - investments in sustainable energy, infrastructure and transport, as well as information and
    communications technologies, (to) be in need
    Targets by 2030:
    - developed countries: development assistance, (to) give
    - science, technology and innovation: international cooperation, (to) increase
    - environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, (to) give
    - universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and multilateral trading system under the
    World Trade Organization, (to) establish
    - exports of developing countries, (to) increase significantly

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