Sustainable Development Goals and Green Growth

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[...] Eradicate forced labor, slavery and human trafficking. WHAT CHARACTERIZES A SUSTAINABLE COMPANY? A It operates on the logic of sustainable ✔development B It has been operating for a long time ✔ Solutions: Promoting sustainable industries Investing in scientific research and innovation C It is fully respectful of the environment D It produces goods and services that last over time. AFRICA PRODUCES 75% OF THE WORLD'S COCOA. WHAT PROPORTION OF THE INCOME DOES IT RECEIVE FROM THE MANUFACTURE OF CHOCOLATE? A B 45% ✔ Solutions: Improving the regulation of financial markets and institutions, Sending development aid where it is most needed Helping people migrate safely so they can pursue opportunities. [...]

[...] A The equivalent of 60 shopping trolleys B The equivalent of 180 shopping trolleys Solutions: Manage our natural resources more efficiently and dispose of toxic waste better. Get businesses and consumers C The equivalent of 1,600 ✔ shopping trolleys SINCE THE START OF THE 21ST CENTURY, HOW MANY YEARS HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED AS THE HOTTEST ON RECORD? A 5 years B 9 years ✔ Solutions: Political will and technological measures, to limit the increase in global mean temperature C 16 years WHAT PROPORTION OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ARE OVER OR FULLY EXPLOITED? [...]

[...] Source: IEA special report on energy access. In achieving the sustainable development of energy: Developed countries are predominant Asia is on a good way: Energy demands are soaring However poverty, environmental degradation, and infrastructure deficiency are still omnipresent. Struggle of balancing between improving accesses to affordable energy and maintaining environmental sustainability. What are the top SDG priorities? 72 scenario studies to cover and anticipate the sustainable development goals Most of the scenarios about: Climate change (45 models) Economic growth and employment (42 models) Energy (35 models) But Only few models considered: ending poverty, sustainable consumption and production, water, oceans, education HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN POVERTY OR SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION? [...]

[...] Why they do not agree? Young climate activists: Perceive climate change as the symptom of a bigger problem, connected to the same economic and political roots that produce other forms of violence, injustice and inequality. Do not promote making these systems sustainable. Ask for climate justice, and a new, fair, global system. [...]

[...] The Poverty-Environmental Initiative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP or Poverty reduction , inequality Employm ent generatio n Water acce Food securit Climate change , Environ mental African countries have made progress in overcoming information and barriers development of policymaking, budgeting, implementation and monitoring. The evolution toward the global goals Africa pathways to reach global goals:  Better evidence  Breaking down institutional silos  Involvement and empowerment of local sectors  New finance  Progress monitoring Awareness of sustainability In your opinion, how does the current youth perceive the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations? Do they agree? [...]