The 25th of January 2021 marks the UN International Day of Education. This is even more relevant in 2021 as we have seen such disruption to education worldwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We thought it represented a good opportunity to highlight how our Waste Education work can help you support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
As an Educator you can bring the Goals into your lessons by logging into The World’s Largest Lesson.
Find out about progress towards Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
All our in-school Workshops are linked to the Sustainable Development Goals.
If you’re educating children at home, or a teacher looking for resources that work at home then check out our Home Education page.
All our Education resources promote Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.
Our Reduce, Reuse, Recycle message is embedded in everything we do.
What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of goals agreed by all UN countries in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They are a global call-to-action to create a fair and equitable planet that everyone can enjoy, without destroying the environment for future generations.
Timeline of UN Action on Sustainable Development
October 1945
Founding of the UN
The United Nations was founded as a way of ensuring worldwide peace between nations following the Second World War.
June 1992
Rio Earth Summit
In June 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.
June 1992
September 2000
Millennium Goals
The Millennium Declaration was adopted at the Millennium Summit at UN Headquarters in New York. The Summit led to the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aiming to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
August-September 2002
Johannesburg Declaration
The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002, built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration with more focus on improving people’s lives and banishing poverty.
August-September 2002
June 2012
Rio (+20) Summit
- At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document “The Future We Want”.
September 2015
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015.
September 2015
