AGU Global Goals Resources

The Global Goals for Sustainable Development

Overview

Whilst the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focussed on developing countries, the Global goals involve problems faced by every country. They were adopted by delegates from 193 countries on 25th September 2015 with a target date of 2030

“We only have one planet. We have nowhere else to go. If we use our creative powers properly we don’t need anywhere else. If we take care of it, and each other, everything we need is right here”

Ken Robinson (Educational Reformer)

Teaching Resources

Numbers in Action End Poverty Now dvd

DVD The World's Largest Lesson introduced by Malala Yousafzai

DVD The World's Largest Lesson introduced by Emma Watson
Examples of young people taking action

DVD Malala speaking about Global Goals

Links between the Goals (see appendix 4)

Links between the goals

Lesson plans for each of the Global Goals

Lesson plans Scroll down until you see the global goals, click on the goal you want to teach

Global Goals Youtube

World youth forum

What is Japan doing?

United Nations Sustainable Development/ Japan

Book of Best Practice Japan

NGO Teaching Resources

Teach UNICEF

Amnesty International

UN Sustainable Goals

Plan International Seven films about child marriage

Oxfam

Water Aid

IF THE WORLD WERE A VILLAGE Statistics

IF THE WORLD WERE A VILLAGE VIDEO

GILE SIG Resources

Your carbon footprint

There are several sites where you can calculate your carbon footprint however I found the following suitable for second language students.

Global Footprint network

Millennium Development Goals

Looking back at the Millennium Goals

MDG Goals 4 and 5

Video MDGs How far did we get?

Summary of UN final report on the Millennium Development Goals

Videos that explain the Global Goal

The Global Goals Variety of Videos

Celebrities talking about the goals

Short advert

Sustainable Development Goals explained How we measure the goals?

Developing Countries 2017

Benefits of Education

Slide show

Design for Change

Lesson Plan/ with comic book

Design for Change Videos A selection of short, mostly 1 -2 minute videos ( some longer) showing small projects that children and young people have instigated.

Japanese Youth Taking action COP21

Japan's youth taking action

Japan For Sustainability

JFS

Rock the World

New approaches to education including student projects

Environment

The Paris Agreement

United Nations Environment Programme

Gender and the Environment

Facts and figures

A. UNICEF

Country statisticshttp://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_countrystats.html

Child Protection Statistics including Child Labour and Child Marriage

B. World Bank
Over view (population, education, GDP, GNI, Carbon emissions, life expectancy) figures are unavailable for some countries.
By country
Japan
UK
USA
South Korea ( Republic of Korea)
China
Ghana

Climate change by country

By topic

Topics include agriculture, climate change, environment, gender, social development,

World Bank ( Japanese)

C. Water footprint

Water footprint by country click on an individual country

D. Social progress indicator

Social progress Map

E. Happy Planet Index

Happy Planet Map

F. Problems Plan International work in 51 developing countries

Problems by country
Example Pakistan

G .UNESCO

Unesco country profiles

H. Others

Internet Users around the World

World Cup 2014 (Social indicator)

World Heritage sites
World Heritage sites (Africa)
World Heritage sites (Asia)

Resources

http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/ Details about the recent climate change conference in Paris

http://www.globalgoals.org/

http://www.globalgoals.org/ja/ (Japanese)

FIFA rankings (men)
FIFA (women)

http://www.unic.or.jp/news_press/info/15915 (Japanese)

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/sp

http://sustainablejapan.jp/global-goals (Japanese)

http://www.international-sustainable-campus-network.org/

http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/news/topics/2015/10/02_01 Osaka University Environment report in Japanese)
https://teachunicef.org