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Blog Authors:  Sarthak Jalali, Sharmishta R Somayaji, Shashwat Nandan, Shobhit Sharma, Shrey Bhala, Vivitsa Upasti Group 2, Section A, PGDM (BM) 2019-21 Batch   Introduction The sustainable development goal of Quality Education strives to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”. It aims to empower and facilitate current and future generations to meet their needs and, in the process, create an ecosystem of sustainable development. Education is an expansive field and has a lot of aspects to it because of which it has been subdivided into smaller, specific goals such as, by 2030, ensuring that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education. It also strives to impart quality vocational and tertiary education which is intended to lead to better employment opportunities and create a sustainable source of income for individuals. One of the primary objectives o...

Introduction             The United Nations in 2015 adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) that it hopes we will achieve by 2030 through the collective action of all countries. The stated goal of SDGs, as envisioned by the UN, is to serve as "the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. SDG 13, in particular, focuses on Climate Action [1] . The global average temperatures in 2017 were 0.9°C higher than the mean of temperatures recorded from 1951 to 1980. The Sea level has been rising at roughly twice the pace of the long-term average. Both of these trends are worrying. As temperatures grow, the agricultural yields suffer, rainfall becomes less predictable, storms become more severe, and freshwater sources become stressed. All of this means that the prices of food will go up. This will affect all of us, but the poor will suffer the most. The same is the case with rising sea levels. Prese...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. It is unanimously adopted by 193 countries. There are 17 SDGs in total which are integrated — that is, they recognise that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability. This blog will focus on goal number 14 — Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. This SDG’s aim is to protect and manage the marine and coastal ecosystems from pollution keeping sustainability as the key principle. It also plans to address the impacts of ocean acidification. It is estimated that over 5 trillion pieces of plastic are littered across all the major ocean basins. Almost 80% of all marine debris is compose...