Sustainability Goals

Sustainability Goals 250-300 words

Challenges like climate change are raising questions about how to feed a growing population in sustainable ways.  The United Nations has established 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The purpose of these goals is to call every nation to find ways to promote prosperty while protecting the planet. Solutions involving nutrition can be developed to address several sustainability goals.

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Explore the topics of the 17 goals on the right side of the screen. Choose one goal that you believe could involve nutrition and click the square.

Scroll down to find the “Why it matters” page. Click on the image. Read the page and answer the following questions.

Initial Post Due (50pts) – Wed. May 5

In your initial posts:

1. Summarize the goal of the sustainability goal you chose and explain why it is important.

2. Summarize the targets/ actions that should be taken to reach the goal.

3. Expain how nutrition can have an important role in solutions that address the goal.

4. Give an example of social action that we can take to help promote the goal in our local communities and/or nation.