聯合國的全球目標：您如何改變世界！ （進行中）

Students will learn about the Global Goals that the United Nation developed to help improve our world. The goals range from education to equality, clean water to quality education, health and wellbeing, and more. You can find the full list of goals at the end of this post. Throughout this course, we will focus on the 17 goals by analyzing each one through various capacities including real- life examples, article, videos, etc., to determine how the goal affects us and how we can help promote this goal to help change the world. 

This course will be interactive with group discussions, individual opportunities to provide insight to goals, activities, and more. Students are encouraged to ask questions, share ideas, and dive deep. My goal is to serve as a class facilitator. Ideally, students will be guiding their own learning as they help each other to discover more, share ideas, and encourage one another along the way. They do not need any prior knowledge, but a passion for justice is a plus!

NOTE: The goals are stand- alone goals, meaning, students do not need prior knowledge of one goal to understand the next goal. They also do not need to have gone to the exploration class before going to the creating class in order to understand. Students may join the class at any point!

Here is the schedule and below the schedule you will find details about the goals:
Week of September 6th- Exploration of Goal 2
Week of September 13th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 2
Week of September 20th- Exploration of Goal 3
Week of September 21st- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 3
Week of September 27th- Exploration of Goal 4
Week of October 4th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 4
Week of October 11th- Exploration of Goal 5
Week of October 18th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 5
Week of October 25th- Exploration of Goal 6
Week of November 1st- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 6
Week of November 15th- Exploration of Goal 7
Week of November 22nd- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 7
Week of November 29th- Exploration of Goal 8
Week of December 6th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 8
Week of December 13th- Exploration of Goal 9
Week of December 20th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 9
Week of December 27th Exploration of Goal 10
Week of January 3rd- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 10
Week of January 10th- Exploration of Goal 11
Week of January 17th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 11
Week of January 24th- Exploration of Goal 12
Week of January 31st- Creating a Goal to achieve Goal 12
Week of February 7th- Exploration of Goal 13
Week of February 14th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 13
Week of February 21st- Exploration of Goal 14
Week of February 28th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 14
Week of March 7th- Exploration of Goal 15
Week of March 14th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 15
Week of March 21st- Exploration of Goal 16
Week of March 28th- Creating a plan to achieve Goal 16

Here are the goals: 

1. No Poverty
* Eradicate extreme poverty
* Reduce poverty by at least 50%
* Implement social protection systems
* Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology, and economic resources
* Build resilience to environmental, economic, and social disasters
*Mobilize resources to implement policies to end poverty
* Create pro- poor and gender- sensitive policy frameworks

2. Zero Hunger
* Universal access to safe and nutritious food 
* End all forms of malnutrition
* Double the productivity and incomes of small- scale food producers
* Sustainable food production and resilient agricultural practices
* Maintain the genetic diversity in food production
* Invest in rural infrastructure, cultural research, technology, and gene banks
* Prevent agricultural trade restrictions, market distortions, and export subsidies 
* Ensure stable food commodity markets and timely access to information

3. Good health and Wellbeing
* Reduce maternal morality
* End all preventable deaths under 5 years of age
* Fight communicable diseases
* Reduce morality from non- communicable diseases and promote mental health
* Prevent and treat substance abuse
* Reduce road injuries and deaths
* Achieve universal healthcare coverage
* Reduce illness and death from hazardous chemicals and pollution
* Implement the WHO framework convention on tobacco control
* Support research, development, and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines
* Increase health financing and support health workforce in developing countries
* Improve early warning systems for global health risks

4. Quality Education
* Free primary and secondary education
* Equal access to quality pre- primary education
- Equal access to affordable technical, vocational, and higher education
* Increase the number of people with relevant skills for financial success
* Eliminate all discrimination in education
* Universal literacy and numeracy
* Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
* Build and upgrade inclusive and safe schools
* Expand higher education scholarships for developing countries
* Increase the supply of qualified teachers in developing countries

5. Gender Equality
* End discrimination against women and girls 
* End all violence against exploitation of women and girls
* Eliminate forced marriages
* Value unpaid care and promote shared domestic responsibilities
* Ensure full participation in leadership and decision making
* Universal access to reproductive health and rights
* Equal rights to economic resources, property ownership, and financial services
* Promote empowerment of women through technology
* Adopt and strengthen policies and enforceable legislation for gender equality

6. Clean Water and Sanitation
* Safe and affordable drinking water
* End open defecation and provide access to sanitation and hygiene
* Improve water quality, wastewater treatment, and safe reuse
* Increase water- use efficiency and ensure freshwater supplies
* Implement integrated water resources management 
* Protect and restore water- related ecosystems
* Expand water and sanitation support to developing countries
* Support local engagement in water and sanitation management

7. Affordable and Clean Energy
* Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
* Increase the share of renewable energy 
* Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
* Enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology
* Expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries

8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
* Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances 
* Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation
* Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises
* Improve progressively global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavor to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation
* Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
* Substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
* Eradicate forced labor, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labor
* Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers
* Promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
* Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
* Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries
* Develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization

9. Industries, Innovation, and Infrastructure
* Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure
* Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization 
* Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises
* Upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes
* Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries
* Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States 
* Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries
* Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries

10. Reduced Inequalities
* Progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
* Empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
* Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
* Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
* Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations
* Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions
* Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies
* Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements
* Encourage official development assistance and financial flows
* Reduce the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent

11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
 * Ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums
* Provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all and improve road safety
* Enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries
* Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
* Significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters
* Reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities
* Provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities
* Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning
* Substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement holistic disaster risk management at all levels
* Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials

12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
* Implement the 10-year framework of programs on sustainable consumption and production
* Achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
* Halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains
* Achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
* Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
* Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
* Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
* Ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
* Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
* Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
* Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption 

13. Climate Action
* Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
*Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
*Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
* Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
* Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

14. Life Below Water
* By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
* By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
* Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
* By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
* By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
* By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
* By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
* Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
* Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
* Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of The Future We Want

15. Life on Land
* By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
* By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
* By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
* By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development
* Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
* Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed
* Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products
* By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species
* By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts
* Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems
* Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation
* Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities

16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
* Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
* End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
* Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
* By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime
* Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
* Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
* Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
* Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
* By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration
* Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
* Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime
* Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development