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Grade 8 Passion Quest: UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goals

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

  • 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 access to water and sanitation for all.

  • Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.

  • Goal 8. Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all.

  • Goal 9. IBuild resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

  • Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries.

  • Goal 11. Make cities 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.

  • Goal 15. Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss.

  • Goal 16. Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.

  • Goal 17. Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

For a full list of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, click here.

Introduction to SDGs

general resources

Generation 2030 - articles on youth initiatives in support of the UN SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals - Topic portal from Global Issues in Context

"The Role of Sport in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals" from the UN Chronicle

What Can You Do? - a list of small things that you can do now to help meet the sustainable development goals. 

CIA World Factbook - summaries of information on all the countries in the world. Look for the drop down menu on the top right and find the country you are interested in. 

Other

Citation Guides & Bibliography Generators

How to evaluate information.

PAARC poster

The image above is linked to an slideshow that explains each of the criteria. 

Here is a link to the poster

The MHS library has bookmarks to help you remember these.