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SDG 2030

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim for a sustainable future for all by 2030, targeting poverty, climate, gender, and education. Accelerated efforts and investments are needed to reach the goals, offering opportunities for innovation and transformation towards a better future.

Poverty A Global Pandemic
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Poverty A Global Pandemic

Eradicating poverty means expanding the richness of human life, rather than simply the richness of the economy in which human beings live. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other essential services, social discrimination and exclusion, and the lack of participation in decision-making. Various social groups bear a disproportionate burden of poverty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Based on GDP per capita in 2019 these are the poorest countries in the world: DRC, Mozambique, Uganda, Tajikistan, Yemen, Haiti, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Bangladesh, CDI, Kenya, Nicaragua, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Vietnam, Laos, Honduras, Egypt, Ukrain, Angola, Philippines, Moldova, Tunisia, Morocco, Bolivia, Venezuela, Indonesia, El Salvador, SriLanka, Algeria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Kosovo, Mongolia, Guatemala, Belize, Iraq, Jamaica, Albania, Iran, Paraguay, Bosnia, South Africa, Belarus, Ecuador, Macedonia, Colombia, Turkmenistan, Peru, Thailand, Serbia, Turkey, Dominican Republic, Botswana, Montenegro, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Mexico, Russia, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Romania, Lebanon, Croatia, Poland, Panama, Chile, Hungary, Uruguay, Oman, Trinidad, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia, Estonia, Portugal, CzechRepublic, Taiwan, Bahrain, Slovenia, Kuwait, Cyprus, Kuwait, Cyprus, Brunei, Malta, Korea, Spain, PuertoRico, Italy, UAE, NewZealand, Japan, Israel, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, Finland, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Singapore, Denmark, Qatar, USA, Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Norway and Luxembourg. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What will you do to eradicate poverty? Where does your country rank? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Editor: Joseph Sauchelli
Eat More Plants for A Healthy Planet | SDGs 2030
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Eat More Plants for A Healthy Planet | SDGs 2030

This week we focus on SDG 2 ( END HUNGER). Every morsel of food from every plate, bowl and cooking pot around the world takes a small bite from Earth’s resources. The human diet places a strain on the environment, water resources, biodiversity and just about every other measure of planetary health. With so much at stake, researchers have turned their attention to a pressing question: what sort of diet can the planet realistically support? The answer requires insights from fields such as nutrition, agriculture and climate research. “We need to produce food groups that are good for health in ways that are restorative to the planet, rather than extractive,” says Corinna Hawkes, director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London. The particular foods on the plate will vary from one place to another, she says, but those meals need to add up to something more sustainable than society’s current fare. “When you look carefully at the big systems that regulate the stability of our planet, food is a dominant player in essentially all of them,” says Johan Rockström, an environmental scientist at Stockholm University. In 2019, Rockström, Hawkes and other members of an international group of scientists proposed the EAT-Lancet diet1, a global meal plan that could, in theory, feed 2050’s estimated population of 10 billion people (see ‘Planetary-health diet’). That plan called for drastic cuts in meat consumption and a much higher intake of fruits and vegetables. But it proved controversial with meat-industry proponents and economists, and the quest for a planetary diet continues. When researchers and policymakers convene at the United Nations Food Systems Summit in late 2021, a healthy-planet diet will be near the top of the agenda. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03443-6