In 1992, the world experts convened in Rio de Janeiro Brazil for what was billed as the first Earth Summit. This triggered an ongoing series of summits and actions that led to the current suite of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Review the general information at the Sustainable Development Goals website [1], including the timeline of milestones that show how the concept has evolved since the beginning.
On the Sustainable Development Goals website, you will find icons for each of the 17 goals. Click on each one and review the Overview. These are short entries that describe the goal and provide some facts and figures. For those goals that may be of particular interest to you, feel free to also click on the targets tab to get a better sense of what they are trying to accomplish. We will study the Energy goal in more detail later in this lesson.
SDG website [1]
Questions to guide your reading: