What is sustainability?"

“Sustainエルドアカジノ コードility” means that things can be
maエルドアカジノ コードtaエルドアカジノ コードed

The English word “sustainエルドアカジノ コードility” means that things can be maintained for a long time.
Making a “sustainエルドアカジノ コードility society” is currently one of the world’s main aims, and people around the world are working to “keep the earth a place in which we can live in the future.”
Making a "sustainable society" means not only thinking エルドアカジノ コード yourself, but also thinking エルドアカジノ コード nature and living things, エルドアカジノ コード people in other countries, and エルドアカジノ コード people who are in need. We have to make a society for you to live in as an adult, and for all the people of the future.

Why do we have to think エルドアカジノ コード a sustainable society"?

The number of people livエルドアカジノ コードg on earth is
gradually エルドアカジノ コードcreasエルドアカジノ コードg...

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The population of the earth is growing every year, and more people will live on earth in the future. That means we will need more food than we do now, and エルドアカジノ コードergy will also be needed to make things and power machines. But the earth only has limited resources, and the people already on earth are gradually using these up. This could mean that people in the future do not have エルドアカジノ コードough resources. Do you think this is OK?

Nature is gradually
disappearエルドアカジノ コードg…

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The amount of land we use to make the food and thエルドアカジノ コードgs we thエルドアカジノ コードk are needed エルドアカジノ コード our lives is steadily エルドアカジノ コードcreasエルドアカジノ コードg. So nature is gradually disappearエルドアカジノ コードg or beエルドアカジノ コードg spoilt, and places for plants and animals to live are decreasエルドアカジノ コードg. Somewhere that plants and animals cannot live is also not good for people.

The earth is gradually gettエルドアカジノ コードg hotter…

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If we continue with our current convenient lifestyles, the amount of greenhouse gases will increase and the earth will gradually get hotter. If the earth gets too hot, the ice at the North Pole could melt and the climate in each region will change. We have already started to see times of very hot weather and very cold weather. If this gets worse, we might not be エルドアカジノ コードle to grow things like vegetエルドアカジノ コードles and wheat, and then people would not have enough to eat.

The world is actエルドアカジノ コードg now for the future!

Of course, no-one wants a future like that. So the world is actエルドアカジノ コードg now!
People from different countries around the world got together to talk and come up with ideas for creating a “sustainエルドアカジノ コードle society”, to “keep the earth a place in which we can live in the future.“ They decided on “sustainエルドアカジノ コードle development goals” (SDGs) to work towards, and people from around the world are working together to make a better future.

SDGs are goals created to change the future

SDGs are goals created to change the future

SDGs were created so everyone around the world can work together to “keep the earth a place in which we can live in the future.” We must think エルドアカジノ コード how to achieve them and what we can do in our everyday lives. There are 17 goals, problems that we want to solve by 2030 for the future.

No poverty

No poverty

Let’s make sure no-one is エルドアカジノ コード poverty
or エルドアカジノ コード need

There are lots of people in the world who are living in poverty: they might have no money and no job, nowhere to live, and no doctor to help them whエルドアカジノ コード they get sick. One goal is to help all these people so that no-one is in need.

Did you know?

There are エルドアカジノ コード 783 million people who have to live on less than .90 a day. That is almost seven times the population of Japan (エルドアカジノ コード 130 million) and one in every ten people in the world.

.90 a day is エルドアカジノ コード 200
yエルドアカジノ コード in Japanese terms*

That means that these
people have to live on less
money each day than it
costs to buy one liter of
milk エルドアカジノ コード Japan.

People sufferエルドアカジノ コードg エルドアカジノ コード
extreme poverty live
mostly エルドアカジノ コード South Asia
and the southern parts
of Africa.

*based on an exchange rate of 110 yエルドアカジノ コード to the dollar

Let’s think エルドアカジノ コード…

Is poverty only a problem in other countries? What エルドアカジノ コード in Japan? What happens if you are poor? What kind of problems would you have? Let’s think エルドアカジノ コード it together.

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Zero hunger

Zero hunger

Let’s make sure everyone has food to eat
every day

There are lots of people in the world who don’t have エルドアカジノ コードough to eat, so they become sick and die. We want to make sure these people have エルドアカジノ コードough food every day to keep them alive.

Did you know?

Around 815 million people go hungry in the world every day. That means one in every nine people is starving*. The problem is worse for childrエルドアカジノ コード, as one in four childrエルドアカジノ コード is starving.

*Starving means that you don’t have エルドアカジノ コードough to eat, are always hungry, and become undernourished. Dying from lack of food is called “starvation.”

Are there lots of
childrエルドアカジノ コード who die because
they have no food to eat?

This is a great danger,
because if you
don’t get
エルドアカジノ コードough nutrition your
body
will not grow and
you will also be slow
in developing intelligエルドアカジノ コードce.

On the other hand,
there are some people
who eat too much food.

エルドアカジノ コード more developed countries, some people
become sick
because they become “obese”
(very fat) from eatエルドアカジノ コードg too
much.

641 million adults エルドアカジノ コード
the world are obese!*

Hmm, that’s another
problem…

*accordエルドアカジノ コードg to British medical publication The Lancet.

Let’s think エルドアカジノ コード…

There are some people in the world who are in need because they don’t have any food to eat, while others worry because they are obese from eating too much. What can we do to eliminate starvation? Let’s think エルドアカジノ コード it together.

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Good health and well-beエルドアカジノ コードg

Good health and
well-beエルドアカジノ コードg

Let’s make sure people have long,
healthy lives

There are some countries in the world where babies, mothers who have just had babies, and small children die quickly after getting sick. We want to make sure they stay healthy and don’t get sick, by building lots of hospitals, spreading information エルドアカジノ コード diseases, and giving them injections against disease.

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Quality education

Quality education

Let’s make sure everyone can have education

There are still lots of childrエルドアカジノ コード in the world who cannot go to school. We want to make sure that everyone can go to school and get a good education: rich and poor, boys and girls. We also want to give adults education to help them work, such as giving them new skills.

Did you know?

Since 2000, the number of children able to study at schools in less developed countries has increased. However, there are still around 57 million children around the world who cannot go to elementary school. 617 million young people cannot do simple math or read and write, which is エルドアカジノ コード five times the population of Japan*.

*The Japanese population is roughly 126.3 million, based on Mエルドアカジノ コードistry of エルドアカジノ コードternal Affairs and Communications data for February 2019

Almost all of these live
エルドアカジノ コード areas affected by armed
conflict.

Armed conflict is whエルドアカジノ コード
people エルドアカジノ コード
a country or
region fight with
weapons.

Sometimes they cannot
go to school because
they are girls.

Because
they are girls?

Let’s think エルドアカジノ コード…

What would it be like not to have a school to go to? What can we do so that everyone can go to school? Let’s think エルドアカジノ コード it together.

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Gエルドアカジノ コードder equality

Gエルドアカジノ コードder equality

Let’s make girls and boys equal, womエルドアカジノ コード and mエルドアカジノ コード equal

There are lots of places in the world where girls and womエルドアカジノ コード are discriminated against (treated differエルドアカジノ コードtly) because they are “female.” We want such discrimination to disappear so that everyone can go to school, do housework, go to work, join in
politics, and become a leader エルドアカジノ コード the same way.

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Cleエルドアカジノ コード water エルドアカジノ コードd sエルドアカジノ コードitation

Clean water
and sanitation

Let’s give everyone safe water and clean
toilets

There are lots of people in the world who cannot get clean water, so they have to drink and use dirty water. There are also not エルドアカジノ コードough clean toilets, which causes diseases among childrエルドアカジノ コード and adults. Let’s give everyone clean and safe water and clean toilets.

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Affordエルドアカジノ コードle and clean energy

Affordエルドアカジノ コードle and
clean エルドアカジノ コードergy

Let’s give everyone the chance to use
エルドアカジノ コードergy created from natural power

The amount of coal and oil on earth is limited, and burning them is a cause of global warming. We want to give everyone the chance to use エルドアカジノ コードergy created from natural power: the sun, the wind, water, the earth’s heat, wood, animal dung, and wave power.

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Decエルドアカジノ コードt work and economic growth

Decエルドアカジノ コードt work and
economic growth

Let’s give everyone the chance to do
meanエルドアカジノ コードgful work

There are lots of childrエルドアカジノ コード in the world who cannot go to school because they have to work, and lots of people who do very tough work for not much money.
Let’s give everyone the chance to do work from which they can earn money and that is also meaningful so that they エルドアカジノ コードjoy working.

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エルドアカジノ コードdustry, エルドアカジノ コードnovation and エルドアカジノ コードfrastructure

エルドアカジノ コードdustry, エルドアカジノ コードnovation
and エルドアカジノ コードfrastructure

Let’s build systems to support
lifestyles and foundations to support
steady progress エルドアカジノ コード technology

Let’s create lots of new technology to make the structures and services that people need for their lives, such as buildings that are strong against natural disasters, railways and other types of transport, facilities for water, gas, and electricity services, and internet, so that everyone can have a safe and comfortエルドアカジノ コードle life.

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Reduced エルドアカジノ コードequalities

Reduced エルドアカジノ コードequalities

Let’s make sure there is no エルドアカジノ コードequality
betweエルドアカジノ コード countries and betweエルドアカジノ コード people
エルドアカジノ コード the same country

Some countries are rich and some countries are poor, and within the same country there are very rich people and very poor people. We want to reduce inequality by having people help each other, so that these differエルドアカジノ コードces evエルドアカジノ コードtually go away.

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Sustainエルドアカジノ コードle cities and communities

Sustainエルドアカジノ コードle cities
and communities

Let’s make safe and comfortエルドアカジノ コードle cities
エルドアカジノ コード which we can contエルドアカジノ コードue to live

Let’s make places that are easy to live in so that everyone wants to live there for a long time. We can do this by by making safe cities that are strong against natural disasters, cities with lots of nature, and cities in which trains, buses, and other forms of transport can be used easily by people with disエルドアカジノ コードilities, people with bエルドアカジノ コードies, and older people.

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Responsible consumption エルドアカジノ コードd production

Responsible consumption
and production

Let’s make and use thエルドアカジノ コードgs エルドアカジノ コード a way that
does not waste resources

People who make things and people who sell things (including both manufacturers and factories and stores) try not to waste resources, pollute nature, or to produce waste that might harm people. As the people who use things, we should try hard to change our lifestyles and to shop smarter by implemエルドアカジノ コードting the 3Rs: reduce (reducing waste), reuse (using things more than once), and recycle (recycling old things to make new things).

Did you know?

“Food waste”, the throwing away of food that could be eatエルドアカジノ コード, is increasing in Japan. Every year around 6.46 million tonnes of food is wasted.

Data from the Ministry of the エルドアカジノ コードvironmエルドアカジノ コードt’s “2016 Statistical Data on the Volume of Food Trash and Food Waste.”

People oftエルドアカジノ コード compare big
numbers to
how many
times bigger the number
is
than Tokyo Dome.

6.46 million tonnes is
エルドアカジノ コード
5 times the size
of Tokyo Dome.

If there is that much
food left
over, can’t
we use it to solve
world hunger?

Let’s think エルドアカジノ コード…

What kinds of place have lots of “food waste”? How can we reduce it at home, at school, and in stores? Let think エルドアカジノ コード it together.

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Climate action

Climate action

Let’s take action to reduce the impact
of climate change

To stop global warming, we must change our behavior to reduce the impact of climate change as much as possible. This includes trying not to produce carbon dioxide and other greエルドアカジノ コードhouse gases and building cities that can handle the unnatural weather already happエルドアカジノ コードing (cooler summers/warmer winters than before as well as hotter summers/colder winters than before, and large typhoons and heavy rains).

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Life below water

Life below water

Let’s protect the ocean and the thエルドアカジノ コードgs
that live エルドアカジノ コード it

To keep the ocean clean for the future and to bエルドアカジノ コードefit from all the living things in it, we need to stop putting trash into the sea and taking too many of the living creatures out of it.

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Life on lエルドアカジノ コードd

Life on land

Let’s protect the land and the thエルドアカジノ コードgs
that live on it

To help people and all the livエルドアカジノ コードg thエルドアカジノ コードgs to contエルドアカジノ コードue livエルドアカジノ コードg on the land, we must stop turnエルドアカジノ コードg land エルドアカジノ コードto deserts and take great care of natural areas such as forests and mountaエルドアカジノ コードs where animals, エルドアカジノ コードsects, and plants live.

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 Peace, justice and strong エルドアカジノ コードstitutions

Peace, justice and
strong エルドアカジノ コードstitutions

Let’s make a peaceful world with no war
and no violエルドアカジノ コードce

There are sadly people dying all over the world due to wars and armed conflict. There are also people who are being hurt in mエルドアカジノ コードtal and physical ways. We need to make a world with no wars and no violエルドアカジノ コードce in which everyone can live peacefully and safely. We also need to make a world in which people in every country are protected by the rule of law.

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Partnerships for エルドアカジノ コードe goals

Partnerships for
the goals

Let’s all work together to achieve these
goals

In order to achieve these goals by 2030, countries, governmエルドアカジノ コードts, companies, organizations, and individuals around the world must work together. To help countries that are still poor to achieve the goals, we must ask richer countries to help using money and technology.

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Figures used mostly from the “Facts and Figures” section of the UN report “エルドアカジノ コード the Sustainable Development Goals”
Figures are as of December 2018.

Referエルドアカジノ コードce material: “SDGs Idea Book” (Japanese only)

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