The United Nations has identified 17 key challenges facing the world today. These
include enormous issues like tackling climate change and poverty across the globe.
Of the 17 goals designed to help deliver the 2030 vision for a more sustainable planet, we have identified nine where we believe we can make the most positive social impact.
Goal 2
2.1 End hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food
2.4 Ensure sustainable food production and resilient agriculture
Goal 3
3.4 Reduce premature mortality through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and wellbeing
Goal 5
5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making
Goal 8
8.5 Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
8.7 Take active measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and end child labour in all its forms
8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers
Goal 12
12.3 Halve per capita global food waste by 2030
12.5 Reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.6 Adopt sustainable practices and integrate sustainability information into reporting
Goal 13
13.3 Improve capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation and impact reduction
Goal 14
14.1 Prevent and reduce marine pollution
14.2 Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources
Goal 15
15.1 Ensure the sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems
15.2 Promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation
Goal 17
17.16 Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi stakeholder partnerships that mobilise and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the goals