Take a look at the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and see how sustainability can relate to your sector/discipline. Can you see now how your course material is related?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The 17 SDGs are presented in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and fall under five main areas of critical importance for the world.
Please click the following five areas to view a description.
To end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
To protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.
To ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
To foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.
To mobilize the means required to implement the Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people. The interlinkages and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals are of crucial importance in ensuring that the purpose of the new Agenda is realized. If we realize our ambitions across the full extent of the Agenda, the lives of all will be profoundly improved and our world will be transformed for the better. (sdgs.un.org, n.d., para 3).
Watch “Do you know all 17 SDGs?” to become familiar with the 17 SDGs.
If you are still working to find a good connection between sustainability and your subject matter, or if you are interested in learning more, take a closer look at the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and see how sustainability can relate to your sector/discipline, or course material.
One interesting idea is to shift the focus to where the learning is happening. For example, consider this video about Humber’s Learning Resource Commons, and the effort to create a sustainable building that is energy efficient. This video can begin a discussion referencing the following SDGs:
To access resources for teaching SDGs in your classroom, visit Education for Sustainable Development Goals: learning objectives.