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End hunger and malnutrition for all people, ensure they have "nutritious and sufficient food" throughout the year.

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Double current agricultural food production AND incomes of all small-scale farmers

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Grow food in a way that is sustainable, and "resilient" to climate change and extreme weather

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Exploring the Arctic's Global Seed Vault

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Maintain biodiversity of seeds, animals, and wildlife

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Conserve ecosystems like forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands.

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End deforestation, start reforestation.

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What Ever Happened To Saving The Rainforest?

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Maintain global biodiversity

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Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff

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End "poaching and trafficking of protected species" of animals and plants, worldwide.

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By 2030, it wants to make access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene universal for all indicators. In addition you also want end open defecation.

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- "The global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050. The equivalent of almost three planets could be required to provide the natural resources needed to sustain current lifestyles."
- 93 per cent of the world’s 250 largest companies are now reporting on sustainability.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/

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"Since it began tracking sustainability reports in 1993, KPMG has uncovered monumental changes and dramatic shifts in the number of companies reporting on sustainability, particularly in recent years. This shift is driven by new laws and regulations, as well as increasing recognition that environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues impact financial performance."

https://www.benefitspro.com/2020/12/09/dramatic-increase-in-sustainability-reporting-due-to-generational-attitudes-esg-investing/?slreturn=20210327083059

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By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/

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Resource Efficiency & Sustainable Development

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By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/

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Rethink the way you recycle | Reduce, Reuse, Rethink

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By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/

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AN online corporate social responsibility campaign to create awareness of United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been launched at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).

The campaign will see 100 UTAR Bachelor of Communications (Honours) Public Relations undergraduates taking part in several sub-projects to raise awareness on several issues related to the SDGs or Global Goals.

Among the SDGs the students would be focusing on are "Good Health and Well-being", "Clean Water and Sanitation", "Responsible Consumption and Production" as well as "Climate Action".

Campaign adviser Diong Fong Wei said the the campaign aimed to enable the students to understand the importance of playing an active role in initiating and executing sustainable changes within a community.

"Our tag line - Serving the Community, Restoring Faith in Humanity - is our driving principle.

"Through this campaign, the students are not just gaining the skills and experience they need, but their enthusiasm in supporting the SDG will bring greater awareness to the community, and could even lead others to follow in their footsteps, " she said.

Diong added that the campaign would allow students to pick up soft skills that could help them in the future.

Initiated since 2019, CSR campaigns are part of the students' course requirement, training and involving them on matters concerning economy, environment and social demands of local communities with a series of hands-on projects.

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Online campaign to create awareness of UN Global Goals

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AN online corporate social responsibility campaign to create awareness of United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been launched at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). The campaign will see 100 UTAR Bachelor of Communications (Honours) Public Relations undergraduates taking part in several sub-projects to raise awareness on several issues related to the SDGs or Global Goals.

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Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/

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Foreign aid: who gives the most, and where does it go? | The Economist

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Rethinking support measures for the least developed countries

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Daniel Gay, Inter-Regional Adviser on LDCs Committee for Development Policy Secretariat Part I, below, discusses critically the theoretical background behind the existing international support measures for LDCs and asks how things have gone so far. Part II outlines aspects of a possible alternative approach for the modern era.

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Increase substantially the world's population with access to "affordable, reliable, modern and energy services".

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End poverty in all it's forms everywhere

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Access to affordable and reliable energy is crucial for the population well-being; it is important for the availability of important resources and services.

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Facilitate access to clean, sustainable and renewable energy

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By 2030, it wants to use much more of recycling and safe reuse. In addition, it wants to greatly increase the efficiency of water use in all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of fresh water, reducing the number of people who suffer from water scarcity.

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Sustain per capita economic growth

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By 2030, increase international support and aid for capacity building for developing countries with activities and programs (implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through cross-border cooperation, as appropriate) related to water and sanitation.

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Restore and protect water-related ecosystems, by 2020.

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Even though the renewable energy have been increasing, efforts in this type of energy are still needed.

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Reduce natural disaster events

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Reduce the amount of young workers

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Improve energy efficiency world wide.

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Increasing the accessibility to basic social services and sutainable livelihoods

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Protection systems to help support people in need.

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Empowering those living in poverty

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Bringing awareness about how poverty disproportionally impacts women

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Investing on cooperations to eliminate poverty

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Promote societies that are peaceful and incluse in order to help with sustainable growth

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Achieve higher levels of economic productivity

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Things are not looking good for this SDG. We have lost 100 hectares of the world's forests since 2000, but there has been a significant increase in protected biodiversity areas, with 44% of terrestrial, 41% of freshwater, and 41% of mountain biodiversity under protected status, which have all increased by over 10% since 2000. While a majority of countries have signed on to commit to improving their protection efforts, the follow through has not always happened.

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Protect and reinforce labor rights, and pomote secure and safe working environments

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Increase the accessibility for all in order for everyone to have equal justice.

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This is one of the goals most impacted by Covid-19 and rising levels of conflict globally. Because so many children rely on the meals provided by schools, over 350 million children are missing those meals while in lockdown. Even prior to Covid, over 1/4 of the world's population had moderate or severe food insecurity in 2018. This is actually an increase from years past, and it is thought that because of the increase in climate change events like droughts, floods, etc., it is contributing to increased food insecurity.

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Promote policies that support productive activities, job creation, and encourage the formalization of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprizes

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The goals for energy efficiency was to have an improvement rate of 3%. But unfortunately, this goal is not being accomplished.

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By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

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Have a significant decrease in violence and death everywhere

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Develop effective, transparent and accountable institutions at all levels

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Poverty has been decreasing the pace in which is being eradicated and the pandemic decreased this pace even more and it is pushing more and more people to extreme poverty. Poverty is still decreasing specially amont workers living in extreme poverty. Unfortunatly 4 billion people did not benefit from any social help and natural disasters, which highly contribute to poverty, has been prominant in various countries.

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Conflict, wars, and weak institutions, contribute for a slower progress of this goal. In 2018 the people fleeing from war/persecution exceeded 70 million and the pandemic is slowing this progress even more as it can increase social unrest and violence. Homicide per 100,000, however can decreased. It went from 6.8 percent to 5.8% in the span of 18 years (2000-2018). Violence against children (including physiological, physical and sexual abuse) is still prominant in most countries. Data also shows levels of bribery, being that HIC have the lowest amount of bribery (3.7%) and LIC have the highers (22.3%). More and more countries have been giving access to the public to gain information held by public authorities. And in 2019 40% of countries had national human rights institutions that had successfully achieved the promotion and protection of human rights.

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End all forms of discrimination against women and girls everywhere, independently of whether there are legal frameworks in place or not, by promoting, enforcing, and monitoring gender equality and non-discrimination activities on the basis of sex.

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discrimination against women in workspace

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It is possible to observe an improvement on the access to energy and energy efficiency worldwide. Even with those advances, millions of people still don't have access to this service. The positive progress in access to energy was observed mainly on more developed countries, while LDCs, in the Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, as the higher concentration of population without access to energy (more than 50% of the population). The same thing happens in relation to renewable energy. Financial flows for renewable energy in developing countries are increasing, while in LDCs, financial flows are already low, and aren't increasing much, contributing to a greater gap on development, including energy.

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Reach effective and quality health care services(health coverage)globally.

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The Covid-19 world pandemic impacted directly on the success of this goal. The world is facing the worst economic recession since the Great Depression. Serveral targets are even further away of being completed.

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Eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls everywhere, including public and private environments. That is, eliminate human trafficking, physical, sexual, and physiological violence, and other types of exploitation.

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Ensure and increase women's full and effective participation, as well as for equal opportunities, in leadership at all levels, including decision making in politics, economics, public life, management, and other roles.

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New York, 10 March -Over twenty ministerial-level "Global Champions" from UN Member States have issued messages today calling for urgent action to achieve affordable, clean energy for all by 2030. The messages were issued as the UN is launching a year of accelerated action, kicking off substantive preparations for a Heads of State and Government High-level Dialogue on Energy in September 2021.

The messages and virtual launch mark the start of deliberations by five Technical Working Groups that together will prepare a global roadmap for achieving affordable and clean energy for all (SDG 7) by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050, to inform the Dialogue, a summit-level meeting to be convened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. This will also be an important contribution to addressing the climate crisis, as energy consumption accounts for three-quarters of all greenhouse gas emissions.

"Renewable energy is a key dimension of climate action and is crucial for building a sustainable, prosperous and peaceful future," said Mr. Guterres. "Our challenge is clear: to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, the world must cut carbon emissions by at least 45 per cent below 2010 levels within the next decade. With the world way off track, we must use COVID-19 recovery to build a sustainable economy driven by renewable energy. If we want this energy transition to be just, and to succeed in creating new jobs, a cleaner and healthier environment and a resilient future, developing countries need strong support. This year's High-Level Dialogue on Energy is an opportunity to advance practical solutions to accelerate the deployment of renewables globally and ensure that the developing world has access to them."

In the months ahead, the Global Champion Ministers have agreed to take the lead in galvanizing voluntary commitments. These will take the form of Energy Compacts that national governments, cities, businesses and civil society organizations will present as contributions towards achieving SDG 7 and netzero emissions, aligned with enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions and long-term climate goals under the Paris Agreement.

The global roadmap and Energy Compacts will put forward solutions not only for an energy transition away from fossil fuels, but also to meet the needs of about 800 million people who still lack access to electricity and the nearly 3 billion who lack clean, modern cooking and heating fuels. Solid cooking fuels cause over 1.6 million premature deaths a year, mostly women and children, from indoor air pollution, in addition to their environmental impacts.

"The push this year on sustainable energy, leading up to the large-scale commitments we expect to be announced by many stakeholders in advance of the High-level Dialogue, should help us take a giant leap towards achieving SDG 7 by the 2030 deadline," said Dialogue Secretary-General Liu Zhenmin, UN UnderSecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. "This will bring us closer to net zero emissions by 2050."

"We urgently need to scale up investment and financing to drive forward access to sustainable energy for all -- a key element of the SDGs." said Achim Steiner, Co-Chair of the High-level Dialogue and Administrator of the UN Development Programme. "With the cost of renewables coming down dramatically, it makes sense economically for national and local governments, businesses and others to invest now in smart technologies, helping to create new green jobs and supporting a sustainable recovery."

"During such a critical year for the energy transition, we need bold action to ensure we leave no one behind," said his Co-Chair, Damilola Ogunbiyi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All. "From powering health clinics to creating new jobs, energy is at the heart of a prosperous future for all. Faster progress on SDG7 will support climate action, allow us to recover better from COVID-19 and achieve our global goals. The High-Level Dialogue will be the global platform where governments, businesses, youth and key stakeholders can come together to recommit to a bold energy future."

Alongside the High-level Dialogue on Energy, 2021 will see a series of UN summits and conferences including the Global Sustainable Transport Conference, the Food Systems Summit, and the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 26) that will provide major opportunities to advance the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
Mobilizing Commitments
Each Ministerial-level Champion will work to mobilize voluntary commitments and actions in one of the five thematic areas of the Dialogue: energy access; energy transition; enabling the SDGs through inclusive, just energy transitions; innovation, technology and data; and finance and investment. They will also co-host Ministerial Forums on these issues in June/July.

Their advocacy will be based on the findings of the five Technical Working Groups that will put forward, for each area, a roadmap for actions needed by 2030 to achieve SDG 7. Each Working Group, co-led by three relevant UN and international agencies, consists of 25-40 experts from government and international agencies, businesses, development banks, civil society organizations, academic institutions and others. A list of the Global Champions and Co-lead agencies for each issue area follows:

Energy Access -- Global Champions: China, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia. Technical Working Group Co-leads: UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Office for Least Developed, Landlocked and Small Island Developing States (UN OHRLLS), World Bank.

Energy Transition - Global Champions: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, Nigeria, Spain, United Kingdom. Technical Working Group Co-leads: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP).

Enabling SDGs through Inclusive, Just Energy Transitions - Global Champions: Iceland, Nauru, Panama, Portugal, United Arab Emirates. Technical Working Group Co-Leads: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA), World Health Organization (WHO).

Innovation, Technology and Data - Global Champions: Mauritius, Morocco, Russian Federation, * Technical Working Group Co-leads: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

Finance and Investment - Global Champions: Dominican Republic, Netherlands,* Pakistan, Saudi Arabia*. Technical Working Group Co-leads: European Investment Bank (EIB), International Energy Agency (IEA), UN Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA). * Supporting role.
Media Contacts
UN DGC: Dan Shepard, shepard@un.org;

HLDE Secretariat, UN DESA: Pragati Pascale, pascale@un.org; Daniella Sussman, daniella.sussman@un.org.

See media contacts for partner organizations on the Dialogue website.

On the Web: un.org/en/conferences/energy2021 | Twitter: @UN_Energy

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Over 20 Minister Champions Call for Urgent Action in Lead-up to Energy Summit

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New York, 10 March-Over twenty ministerial-level "Global Champions" from UN Member States have issued messages today calling for urgent action to achieve affordable, clean energy for all by 2030. The messages were issued as the UN is launching a year of accelerated action, kicking off substantive preparations for a Heads of State and Government High-level Dialogue on Energy in September 2021.

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"By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average

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Provide "adequate, safe and affordable" housing for all people.

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To do that