PRELIMS: Sustainable Development goals for CBR Flashcards
Q: What is the target of Goal 1 regarding extreme poverty?
A: By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as living on less than $1.25 a day.
Q: What does Target 1.4 ensure for the poor and vulnerable?
A: Equal rights to economic resources, access to basic services, ownership and control over land and property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate technology, and financial services, including microfinance.
Q: How does Goal 1 address disaster resilience?
A: By building the resilience of the poor and reducing their exposure to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks.
Q: What is the focus of Target 2.1?
A: To end hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food for all people, particularly vulnerable groups and infants, all year round.
Q: How does Goal 2 address malnutrition?
A: By ending all forms of malnutrition and addressing the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons.
Q: What is the aim of Target 2.4 regarding agricultural practices?
A: To ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that improve land and soil quality and help adapt to climate change.
Q: What is the target for reducing maternal mortality under Goal 3?
A: By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.
Q: What does Target 3.2 aim to achieve regarding child mortality?
A: End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least 25 per 1,000 live births.
Q: How does Goal 3 address communicable diseases?
A: By ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases, and combating hepatitis and water-borne diseases.
Q: What is the focus of Target 4.1?
A: To ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education by 2030.
Q: How does Goal 4 aim to address early childhood development?
A: By ensuring access to quality early childhood development, care, and pre-primary education.
Q: What does Target 5.1 seek to eliminate?
A: All forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
Q: What is Target 4.5’s aim regarding educational disparities?
A: To eliminate gender disparities and ensure equal access to education for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, and children in vulnerable situations.
Q: How does Goal 5 address violence against women and girls?
A: By eliminating all forms of violence in public and private spheres, including trafficking and exploitation.
Q: What is the aim of Target 6.1?
A: To achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030.
Q: What is the focus of Target 5.5?
A: To ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making.
Q: How does Goal 6 address sanitation and hygiene?
A: By ensuring access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and ending open defecation, with special attention to the needs of women and girls and vulnerable groups.
Q: What does Target 6.6 aim to protect and restore?
A: Water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers, and lakes, by 2020.
Q: How does Goal 7 promote renewable energy?
A: By substantially increasing the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030.
Q: What is the main objective of Target 7.1?
A: To ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030.
Q: What does Target 7.a aim to enhance?
A: International cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research, technology, and infrastructure.
Q: What does Target 8.5 aim to achieve regarding employment?
A: Full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including young people and persons with disabilities, with equal pay for work of equal value by 2030.
Q: How does Goal 8 address forced labor and child labor?
A: By eradicating forced labor, ending modern slavery, and eliminating child labor in all its forms by 2025.
Q: What is the focus of Target 8.9?
A: To promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
Q: What does Target 9.1 focus on regarding infrastructure?
A: Developing quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.
Q: How does Goal 9 address industry and employment?
A: By promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and significantly raising industry’s share of employment and GDP by 2030.
Q: What is the goal of Target 9.c?
A: To significantly increase access to information and communications technology and provide affordable internet access in least developed countries.
Q: What does Target 10.1 aim to achieve regarding income growth?
A: By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40% of the population at a rate higher than the national average.
Q: How does Goal 10 promote inclusion?
A: By empowering and promoting the social, economic, and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, or economic or other status.
Q: What does Target 10.7 aim to facilitate?
A: Orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration and mobility of people through well-managed migration policies.
Q: What is the focus of Target 11.1?
A: To ensure access for all to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums by 2030.
Q: How does Goal 11 address public spaces?
A: By providing universal access to safe, inclusive, and accessible green and public spaces, particularly for women, children, older persons, and persons with disabilities.
Q: What is the aim of Target 11.6?
A: To reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including focusing on air quality and waste management.
Q: What does Target 12.3 aim to reduce?
A: Per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and food losses along production and supply chains.
Q: How does Goal 12 address sustainable practices in companies?
A: By encouraging companies, especially large and transnational ones, to adopt sustainable practices and integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.
Q: What is the focus of Target 12.c?
A: To rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, taking into account the needs of developing countries.
Q: What is the aim of Target 14.4 regarding fishing?
A: To regulate harvesting, end overfishing, and implement science-based management plans to restore fish stocks to sustainable levels.
Q: What does Target 13.1 aim to strengthen?
A: Resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
Q: How does Goal 13 address education on climate change?
A: By improving education, awareness-raising, and capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and early warning systems.
Q: What is the purpose of Target 13.a?
A: To mobilize $100 billion annually by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries and operationalize the Green Climate Fund.
Q: What does Target 15.1 aim to conserve?
A: Terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, including forests, wetlands, mountains, and drylands.
Q: What is the focus of Target 14.1?
A: To prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from land-based activities, by 2025.
Q: How does Goal 14 address ocean ecosystems?
A: By sustainably managing and protecting marine and coastal ecosystems to strengthen their resilience and restore them for healthy and productive oceans.
Q: How does Goal 15 address deforestation?
A: By promoting sustainable forest management, halting deforestation, restoring degraded forests, and increasing global reforestation efforts.
Q: What is the focus of Target 15.5?
A: To take urgent action to reduce natural habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, and prevent the extinction of threatened species.
Q: What does Target 16.1 aim to reduce?
A: All forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.
Q: How does Goal 16 address justice and legal identity?
A: By ensuring equal access to justice for all and providing legal identity, including birth registration, for all by 2030.
Q: What is the focus of Target 17.1?
A: To strengthen domestic resource mobilization to improve tax and revenue collection capacity in developing countries.
Q: What is the focus of Target 16.5?
A: To substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms.
Q: How does Goal 17 address technology?
A: By promoting the development, transfer, and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favorable terms.
Q: What is the purpose of Target 17.16?
A: To enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development by mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technology, and financial resources to achieve the SDGs.
