The Global Goals

We need to make this world a better place for everyone.

In September of 2015, the United Nations launched the Global Goals. The United Nations is an international organization created to maintain international peace and security, promote sustainable development, protect human rights, uphold international law, and deliver humanitarian aid. The Global Goals are a list of issues world leaders everywhere have committed to achieve by 2030.

Global Goal #1: End poverty in all its form everywhere

Global Goal #2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Global Goal #3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

 

Global Goal #4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Global Goal #5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Global Goal #6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Global Goal #7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Global Goal #8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all 

Global Goal #9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Global Goal #10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Global Goal #11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Global Goal #12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 

Global Goal #13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Global Goal #14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Global Goal #15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Global Goal #16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Global Goal #17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Now that you know the goals, share them! The only way these goals are going to work is if everyone knows about them. Tell everyone about the Global Goals. One way you can share the goals is by taking a picture of yourself with the goal that means the most to you. You can write the number of the goal on your hand, on a piece of paper, on a flag, get creative with it. Share the picture on any social media platform (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). 

I think from my last post you can probably guess which global goal means the most to me :)
It is global goal #6

To learn more about any of these goals go to http://www.globalgoals.org/

To learn more about the United Nations go to http://www.un.org/en/index.html

* Images obtained from google.com and globalgoals.org