United Nations
Sustainable Development
Goals
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Through this lecture
• United nations
• What is sustainable development?
• Can we achieve it?
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DR Brundtland
• Chair of the World Commission on
Environment and Development
(WCED)
• in 1987.
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• https://www.who.int/topics/millenniu
UN Sustainable Development
Goals in 2000
m_development_goals/about/en/
The Eight Millennium Development
Goals are:
1. to eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger;
2. to achieve universal primary
education;
3. to promote gender equality and
empower women;
4. to reduce child mortality;
5. to improve maternal health;
6. to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and
other diseases;
7. to ensure environmental
sustainability; and
8. to develop a global partnership for
development.
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Where is civil engineering in these Goals?
• What about goal 7?
• to ensure environmental sustainability; and
• All goals?
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What did we achieve between 2000 and 2015
• GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER
• Target 1.A:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is
less than $1.25 a day
• The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years
ahead of the 2015 deadline.
• More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since
1990.
• In 1990, nearly half of the population in the developing regions lived on less
than $1.25 a day. This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015.
• At the global level more than 800 million people are still living in extreme
poverty.
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What did we achieve between 2000 and 2015
• GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER
• Target 1.B:
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including
women and young people
• Globally, 300 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty line in
2015.
• The global employment-to-population ratio – the proportion of the workingage population that is employed – has fallen from 62 per cent in 1991 to 60
per cent in 2015, with an especially significant downturn during the global
economic crisis of 2008/2009.
• Only four in ten young women and men aged 15-24 are employed in 2015,
compared with five in ten in 1991.
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What did we achieve between 2000 and 2015
• GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER
• Target 1.C:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from
hunger
• The proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions has
fallen by almost half since 1990.
• Globally, about 795 million people are estimated to be undernourished.
• More than 90 million children under age five are still undernourished and
underweight.
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What did we achieve between 2000 and 2015
• GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/environ.shtml
Target 7.A:
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and
reverse the loss of environmental resources
• Forests are a safety net, especially for the poor, but they continue to disappear at an alarming
rate.
• An increase in afforestation, a slight decrease in deforestation and the natural expansion of
forests have reduced the net loss of forest from an average of 8.3 million hectares annually in the
1990s to an average of 5.2 million hectares annually between 2000 and 2010.
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Between 1990 and 2012, global emissions of carbon dioxide increased by over 50 per cent.
• Ozone-depleting substances have been virtually eliminated, and the ozone layer is expected to
recover by the middle of this century.
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What did we achieve between 2000 and 2015
• GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/environ.shtml
Target 7.B:
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate
of loss
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Protected ecosystems covered 15.2 per cent of land and 8.4 per cent of
coastal marine areas worldwide by 2014.
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What did we achieve between 2000 and 2015
• GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/environ.shtml
Target 7.C:
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to
safe drinking water and basic sanitation
•The world has met the target of halving the proportion of people without
access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule.
•Between 1990 and 2015, 2.6 billion people gained access to improved
drinking water sources.
•Worldwide 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved sanitation.
• Despite progress, 2.4 billion are still using unimproved sanitation facilities,
including 946 million people who are still practicing open defecation.
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What did we achieve between 2000 and 2015
• GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/environ.shtml
Target 7.D:
Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million
slum dwellers
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Between 2000 and 2014, more than 320 million people living in slums
gained access to improved water sources, improved sanitation facilities, or
durable or less crowded housing, thereby exceeding the MDG target.
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More than 880 million people are estimated to be living in slums today,
compared to 792 million in 2000 and 689 million in 1990.
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In 2015 UN 17 Sustainability goals: 1 of 2
• GOAL 1: No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
• GOAL 2: Zero Hunger
• GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being
• GOAL 4: Quality Education
• GOAL 5: Gender Equality
• GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
• GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
• GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
• GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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In 2015 UN 17 Sustainability goals: 2 of 2
• GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality.
• GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.
• GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
• GOAL 13: Climate Action
• GOAL 14: Life Below Water
• GOAL 15: Life on Land
• GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
• GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/envision2030.html
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Tasks
• Earthshot prize
• Five awards.
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References:
• https://sdgs.un.org/goals
• https://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/about/
en/
• Earthshot.
• Dr Brundtland.
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Q&A
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