SDG'S Flashcards
What were they known as beforehand?
The Millennium Development Goals
What does SDG stand for?
Sustainable Development Goals
When were they created?
2015
Who created them?
United Nations
What are first the 7 SDG?
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat major diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
What is the link between SDG 1 and the environment?
The livelihoods and foody security strategies of the poor often directly depend on the natural resources to them e.g. farming
What is the link between SDG 2 and the environment?
In some countries, young children are also relied to on to get water from far distances for example, thus having little time for school
What is the link between SDG 3 and the environment?
Poorer women are more likely to get respiratory diseases by indoor air pollution and tend to have unequal access to land and natural resources even though they’re largely responsible for getting those.
What is the link between SDG 4 and the environment?
Due to soil degradation and erosion in yields, children under 5 particularly get malnutrition and also have lots o f water-related diseases attacking them.
What is the link between SDG 5 and the environment?
There can be adverse affects on women’s health which can lead to more complications in pregnancy and childbirth. This comes from indoor pollution and carrying heavy things e.g. water over long distances.
What is the link between SDG 6 and the environment?
Lots of people can’t find work in their own country, so they migrate and few new way of living and as a result contracts AID’s/ HIV. Poor urban area planning and land management which leads to the spread of malaria as well.
How much in total diseases in developing countries can be attributed to environmental risk?
1-5th
What is the link between SDG 7 and the environment?
At a certain point, there is no going back in climate change. That’s why these goals are important/