1.

No Poverty

3. Good Health and Well-Being

6. Clean Water and Sanitation

The ambition for SDG 6 is for everyone
to have access to clean and affordable
drinking water. At the same time every
human being should have access to good sanitation and hygiene, which includes
proper drainage systems and access to
toilets. Clean water is one of the most
important prerequisites for health, which is why it is good news that 91% of the
world’s population have access to an
improved water source.

7. Affordable and Clean Energy

In the prosperous parts of the world, we
mean abandoning the use of coal and oil
The first SDG is about eradicating poverty death, but it also means ending extreme
in all its forms before 2030. It is especially hunger, which is the situation when millions 4. Quality Education
about providing opportunities for people in of people in many different countries are Education is the foundation that makes
the poorest countries of the world. The malnourished because they have no us able not only to understand, but also
World Bank defines “extreme poverty” as access to proper and nutritious food. to solve the world’s problems while at the
an income per person of less than 1.9 US SDG 3 focuses on the promotion of same time improve our own lives. Even
dollars per day. It is a huge challenge, but healthy living and well-being for every though it is still far from everybody who
we are already moving in the right body of all ages. It is a commitment to gets a good education, access to
direction. ending epidemics of communicable education has improved drastically on a
diseases, reducing non-communicable global scale over the last few decades.
2. Zero Hunger diseases by one third, reducing maternal Previously it was mostly boys who recived
SDG 2 is essentially about ending all forms and child mortality, achieving universal school tuition, but now almost as many
of hunger. This means ending famine, health insurance coverage and providing girls as boys start and attend school.
which is the situation when thou sands of access to safe and affordable medicines
people living in an area risk starving to and vaccines for all. 5. Gender Equality
 SDG 5 focuses on ending all forms of and social life and last, but not least, countries, people are still cooking their food on
universal access to sexual and
discrimination and violence against
women and girls everywhere. The aim is reproductive rights.
an open fire, and in these7
for women to have equal rights to and using more energy from solar panels, wind circumstances it will make a huge dif
resources such as land and real estate, to turbines and water, etc when we talk about ference if they shift from burning wood to
equal participation in political, economic sustianable energy. However, in many cooking food on for example gas stoves.

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8. Decent work and economic growth It requires decent working
conditions and economic growth when millions of people need to work
their way out of extreme poverty. The UN aims at reaching a 7% growth
in the least developed countries. This is why we have to promote lasting,
inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive employment and decent jobs for all.

9. Industry, Innovation and

Infrastructures
SDG 9 might seem like one of the more difficult goals to relate to
because it ap pears quite technical. However, it is essen tially about
makeing society function in smart and sustainable ways. It is is about
roads, railways and harbours which
enable us to trade with the entire world instead of just our local
communities. The aim is to build resilient infrastructure, pro mote
inclusive and sustainable industriali sation and foster innovation.

10. Reduced Inequalities

SDG 10 aims at reducing the general production
inequality within and among countries, If we are dedicated to a sustainable
but also at reducing inequality between future, we need to think seriously about
the citizens of the same country. This will and change our consumption and spen
be achieved by sustaining an income ding habits. The human population are
growth specifically of the bottom 40% of consuming a large amount of resources,
the population in each country at a rate but a lot of this consumption is un
above the national average.

11. Sustainable cities and communities

More than half of the world's popula
tion now live in cities, and the massive
urbanisation is not slowing down. This
provides a broad range of challenges, but
also opportunities. The inhabitants of the
big cities use enormous amounts of food,
water and other resources, and they also necessary. Approximately one third of the
produce huge amounts of waste which world’s food products end up as waste.
must be handled and disposed of. This means that we have a huge opportu
However, when so many people live nity to reduce that amount of waste if we
closely together, it is also easier to set up start to see food waste as a resource that
waste management systems than when could be used in a better way.
people live far apart.

12. Responsible consumption and

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17. Partnerships for the goals

SDG 17 focuses on political, technological
and economic cooperation across coun
try borders through which governments,
companies, organisations and individuals
come together in partnerships to work
towards achieving the goals. However,
it is also about who is going to pay for
the investments necessary to achieve the
SDGs.
able to hunt, fish and cut trees, but Ungdoms Fællesråd – DUF) as a publicity stunt.
without destroying nature and our planet Even though it was created as a gimmick, there
permanently.
9
is no doubt that it is the
16. Peace, Justice and Strong young people who have to push for
Institutions “There can be no sustainable the world to achieve Agenda 2030
develop ment without peace and no and the SDGs. By empowering,
peace without sustainable development.” involving and
This quote is taken from the introduction engaging young people we ensure that
by the UN to the SDGs. It is of crucial the SDGs are more than a topic discus
13. Climate Action impor tance to stop wars, but peace alone sed; they are goals leading to action
SDG 13 is about taking urgent action to will not suffice. SDG 16 is also about also in future!
combat climate change and its impacts. reducing all kinds of violence, including
Global warming is a fact, so we have to organised crime and terrorism.
prepare for the consequences that it will
have on our planet. We have to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, improve risk
management structures in areas hit by
natural disasters and help vulnerable
regions in the world develop, but in a
sustainable way.

14. Life Below Water YOUTH

The ambition of SDG 14 is to reduce the
pollution of the oceans considerably and to
stop overfishing the world. Marine life is
EMPOWERM
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much more important to our planet than
most people know. Half of the oxygen from
the air that we breathe is produced by the
algae in the sea, and the fishing of fish,
shellfish and squids feeds approximately 3
billion people.
15. Life On Land
SDG 15 on life on land is not only about
preserving nature, but also about 18. Youth Empowerment
promoting sustainable use of nature’s SDG 18 is an unofficial goal created
resources. So in future we should still be by The Danish Youth Council (Dansk
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