Kicking off: JCU and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Read the full list of UN SDGsThe United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 objectives that aim to improve the standard of living for all people across the globe. These include:
  • Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
  • Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
  • Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
  • Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
  • Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

JCU supports the SDGs, and much of our research, teaching and community engagement contributes to helping these goals become a reality.  JCU State of the Tropics is a global alliance of institutions working towards a brighter future for the Tropics.  You could say we were "kicking goals" (see what we did there?).

For the next 17 weeks (give or take), the JCU Library is going to run a series of posts highlighting these goals and how JCU researchers, lecturers, staff and students are making a difference in the tropics (and world wide).

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