What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Why should I care about them?
Sunday, Oct 25, 2015, 12:30 – 2:30 pm - doors open at 12:15
Unitarian Universalist Church and Center
1187 Franklin St, San Francisco
Lunch is included, free for students. $10 at the door. $7 via eventbrite tickets.
Speakers, Q&A followed by discussion at the lunch tables. This has proven to be an enjoyable and educational format.
(This is UNA-SF's Sunday October 25th UNA-SF UN 70th Celebration, not to be confused with our fabulous Saturday afternoon, October 24th event in the Green Room at the War Memorial. If you can make it both days, great!)
The Sustainable Development Goals:
- End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
- Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
- Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
- Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
- Reduce inequality within and among countries.
- Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
- Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
- Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
- Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
The full UN document “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” is available here: bit.ly/1Epf648.
