Awesome list of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Resources
SDGs: “A blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030"
You would like to explore, apply and build upon the Sustainable Development Goals. You have come to the right place. Here you may:
- Browse and acquire in a speedy fashion a fundamental understanding
- Explore targets and metrics as they apply to specific industries or applications
- Be informed of updates and events
Important links for the Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
The primary resource for SDG text and associated data
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries — developed and developing — in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth — all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”. The SDGs were set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030. They are included in a UN Resolution called the 2030 Agenda or what is colloquially known as Agenda 2030
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sustainable_Development_Goal_targets_and_indicators
This List of SDG targets and indicators provides a complete overview of all the targets and indicators for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.[1][2] The global indicator framework for Sustainable Development Goals was developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) and agreed upon at the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission held in March 2017. The official indicator list below includes all the refinements made up to March 2020.
Concerns
- Harvard Business Review: Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Summary.
For two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. But although such reporting has become widespread, and some firms are deriving benefits from it, environmental damage and social inequality are still growing.
This article, by Timberland’s former COO, outlines the problems with both sustainability reporting and sustainable investing. The author discusses nonstandard metrics, insufficient auditing, unreliable ESG ratings, and more. But real progress, he says, requires not just better measurement and reporting practices but also changes in regulations, investment incentives, and mindsets.close
Governance fundamentally underpins our ability to get things done in society yet there numerous failures in governance everywhere: weak safeguards in the global financial system, coups against elected national governments, the multi-decadal struggle to take global action to manage greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
As scholars who study governance in the context of managing natural resources, we see these all fundamentally as failures of governance.
And unless we begin to think now about governance in the context of the SDGs, they too will fail in achieving their ambitious goals.
Background on the Goals
- Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/sustainable-development-goals
The seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an expansive and ambitious set of development goals that aim to “end poverty in all its forms” by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the UN’s chief initiative for advancing basic living standards in the world and addressing a range of issues, including armed conflict, climate change, and equality. Supporters say this set of nonbinding goals enjoys unprecedented input from governments and NGOs and will “provide the overarching narrative” of sustainable development, while critics say they are too broad, unfocused, and unrealistic.
- https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/achieving-sustainable-development/0/steps/35496
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320291340_A_Critical_Analysis_of_the_Sustainable_Development_Goals
- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/turns-out-sdg-critics-were-wrong/
Lists of the goals in varying presentations
The SDGs including targets and indicators is comprised of over 250 items. Providing speedy access to all of the elements is a major goal of this projects.
The following sections outline various possible methods for enabling a good user experience
AirTable
AirTable provides “The power of a database with the familiarity of a spreadsheet. All the power of a flexible relational data model and more. Add fields for attachments, long text notes, checkboxes, links — even barcodes. Surface the data you need, ditch the data you don’t.”
The following airTable is a free sample from the airTable website.
There is much that could be added here to make a highly interactive and usabler SDGs tool.
Prezi
Prezi: “Unlike slides, which literally box you in, Prezi gives you a limitless zoomable canvas and the ability to show relationships between the big picture and fine details. The added depth and context makes your message more likely to resonate, motivate, and get remembered, whether it’s your bread-and-butter sales pitch, a classroom lecture, or a TED Talk to the world’s foremost thinkers.”
The following presentation is a sample:
“https://prezi.com/ig9rq4pmcs4v/sustainable-development-goals-sdgs/”
This demo is could be used as the basis to create presentations with many possible interactions.
HTML, CSS and GitHub Gists
A third approach to presenting the SDGs will be to create access to the goals that is fast, simple and complete using basic HTML and CSS. Posts in Medium cannot have HTML embedded. We provide a simple example using GitHub Gists and HTML <details> tags.
“https://gist.github.com/theo-armour/a887bbc1a51cb2037309da618af8fd8e#file-gistfile1-md”
Click any of the triangular arrows below to open and view the targets and indicators
Links of Interest
4 Tips for Marketers: Sustainability Is the New Black
1 Consumers are willing to pay more
2 Look to sustainable leaders
3 Remain genuine and tell your story
4 Track the right metrics
- 4. Track the right metrics:
2021–02–20 ~ Add “Links of Interest” & link
2021–02–19 ~ Expand the introduction and update the formatting
2021–02–19 ~ Expand the introduction and update the formatting
2021–02–14 ~ The beginning of a project intended to help the SDGs be explored, applied and improved.
