The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are considered in the context of learning resources and capacity building. SDGs are officially known as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a set of 17 "Global Goals" with 169 targets between them.
Wikiversity is an Open Educational Resource and therefore the capacity building and learning is addressed by this module about SDGs. With SDG-Tagging other learning resources can be labelled with SDGs within Wikiversity, if the learning objectives match with one or more SDGs.
SDG concept was spearheaded by the United Nations through a deliberative process involving its 193 Member States, as well as global civil society, the goals are contained in paragraph 54 United Nations Resolution A/RES/70/1 of 25 September 2015.[1] The Resolution is a broader intergovernmental agreement that acts as the Post 2015 Development Agenda (successor to the Millennium Development Goals). The SDGs build on the Principles agreed upon under Resolution A/RES/66/288, popularly known as The Future We Want.[2] It is a non-binding document released as a result of Rio+20 Conference held in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.[2]
The SDGs were in large measure informed by the perspective reflected in the often quoted assertion by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General from 2007 to 2016, that
Risk Literacy and capacity building is key to support sustainable decision making.
On 19 July 2014, the UN General Assembly's Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forwarded a proposal for the SDGs to the Assembly. The proposal contained 17 goals with 169 targets covering a broad range of sustainable development issues. These included ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting oceans and forests.[4] On 5 December 2014, the UN General Assembly accepted the Secretary-General's Synthesis Report which stated that the agenda for the post-2015 SDG process would be based on the OWG proposals.[5]
The Intergovernmental Negotiations on the Post 2015 Development Agenda (IGN) began in January 2015 and ended in August 2015. Following the negotiations, a final document was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit September 25–27, 2015 in New York, USA.[6] The title of the agenda is Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[7][8]
Assuming a student has finished some courses in Biology, Environmental Sciences, Architecture, Teacher Education, ...