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SDG Overview
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- End Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere: This goal aims to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured by the proportion of people living on less than $1.90 a day. Key challenges include
- the persistence of poverty in certain regions and
- the impact of economic crises and climate change.
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Do Rich nations and those that have the wealth want this?
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Inflation means moving target - the carrot and donkey
- End Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere: This goal aims to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured by the proportion of people living on less than $1.90 a day. Key challenges include
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- Achieve Zero Hunger: It focuses on ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture, measured by the prevalence of undernourishment. Challenges include
- climate change, conflict, and economic instability.
- Achieve Zero Hunger: It focuses on ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture, measured by the prevalence of undernourishment. Challenges include
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- Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All at All Ages: This goal aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, measured by the under-five mortality rate and the maternal mortality ratio. Challenges include
- access to healthcare, especially in rural and remote areas.
- Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All at All Ages: This goal aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, measured by the under-five mortality rate and the maternal mortality ratio. Challenges include
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- Ensure Inclusive and Quality Education for All: It focuses on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, measured by the literacy rate and the proportion of youth and adults with basic skills. Challenges include
- lack of funding and infrastructure in developing countries.
- Ensure Inclusive and Quality Education for All: It focuses on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, measured by the literacy rate and the proportion of youth and adults with basic skills. Challenges include
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- Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls: This goal aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. Challenges include
- cultural barriers and lack of political will.
- Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls: This goal aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. Challenges include
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- Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation for All: It focuses on ensuring access to water and sanitation for all, measured by the proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services. Challenges include
- lack of infrastructure and funding.
- Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation for All: It focuses on ensuring access to water and sanitation for all, measured by the proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services. Challenges include
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- Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern Energy for All: This goal aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all, measured by the proportion of population with access to electricity. Challenges include
- reliance on fossil fuels and lack of investment in renewable energy.
- Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern Energy for All: This goal aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all, measured by the proportion of population with access to electricity. Challenges include
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- Promote Economic Growth and Decent Work for All: It focuses on promoting sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all, measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Challenges include
- high unemployment rates and income inequality.
- Promote Economic Growth and Decent Work for All: It focuses on promoting sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all, measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Challenges include
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- Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization, and Foster Innovation: This goal aims to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation, measured by the proportion of manufactured goods in exports. Challenges include
- lack of investment and technological backwardness.
- Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization, and Foster Innovation: This goal aims to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation, measured by the proportion of manufactured goods in exports. Challenges include
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- Reduce Inequality Within and Among Countries: It focuses on reducing inequality within and among countries, measured by the income growth of the bottom 40% of the population. Challenges include global economic imbalances and lack of international cooperation.
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- Make Cities Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable: This goal aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, measured by the proportion of urban population living in slums. Challenges include
- rapid urbanization and lack of planning.
- Make Cities Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable: This goal aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, measured by the proportion of urban population living in slums. Challenges include
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- Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns: It focuses on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, measured by the material footprint per capita. Challenges include
- consumer behavior and lack of awareness. Reduce Plastic waste
- Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns: It focuses on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, measured by the material footprint per capita. Challenges include
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- Take Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and Its Impacts: This goal aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, measured by the proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. Challenges include
- lack of political will and technological limitations.
- Take Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and Its Impacts: This goal aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, measured by the proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. Challenges include
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- Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas, and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development: It focuses on conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development, measured by the proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels. Challenges include
- overfishing and pollution.
- Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas, and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development: It focuses on conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development, measured by the proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels. Challenges include
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- Protect, Restore, and Promote Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Sustainably Manage Forests, Combat Desertification, and Halt and Reverse Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss: This goal aims to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss, measured by the proportion of important sites for biodiversity that are covered by protected areas. Challenges include
- habitat destruction and poaching.
- Protect, Restore, and Promote Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Sustainably Manage Forests, Combat Desertification, and Halt and Reverse Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss: This goal aims to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss, measured by the proportion of important sites for biodiversity that are covered by protected areas. Challenges include
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- Promote Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: It focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels, measured by the number of victims of violence. Challenges include
- political instability and corruption.
- Promote Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: It focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels, measured by the number of victims of violence. Challenges include
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- Strengthen the Means of Implementation and Revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development: This goal aims to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development, measured by the total official development assistance. Challenges include
- lack of funding and coordination among stakeholders.
- Strengthen the Means of Implementation and Revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development: This goal aims to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development, measured by the total official development assistance. Challenges include
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a call-to-action for people worldwide to address five critical areas of importance by 2030: people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership
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- High Level Political Forum HLPF to track progress
- Measured via People’s Report Card
- Relate to Social Progress Index - SPI?
- Target SDG to 75 / 100 by 2030 (Norway is 88 / 100)
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Who is getting behind this target?
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