Sustainable Development Goals
The UN’s seventeen goals and 169 targets show where the world has the most work to do.
A gateway to a problem
The Sustainable Development Goals are a commitment by UN member states to improve the situation in the most important areas of life, from decent work and innovation to access to justice. It is worth checking rankings and indicators for your region or country. Areas with low scores can be linked to the subject of your class and turned into a problem to solve.
From data to a problem
- 1Choose one of the 17 goalsStart with the one that connects to the subject of your class.
- 2Reach for the specific targetsFrom the 169 targets, choose one that can be tackled at project scale.
- 3Turn it into a questionFrame the problem as “How might we…?”, for example: how might we reduce food waste?
Sample problems
FoodFood waste
How might we reduce the amount of food that goes to waste?
WorkYoung people out of work
How might we reduce unemployment among young people?
AwarenessSustainable development
How might we raise awareness of sustainable development?
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