Understanding the causes and potential consequences of global climate change on people and the environment are crucial in implementing strategies to reduce the threat of climate change in the future.
In 2015, the United Nations agreed a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are focussed on ending poverty around the world, protecting the planet and ensuring a new prosperity for everyone.
The ‘Global Goals’ include over 169 targets that ensure that all of the countries of the world work to protect the planet.
The range of the goals show that world leaders are agreed on the importance of making big changes to the world, as each of these goals are to be applied universally to all countries.
The goals are aimed at stimulating action across the world by 2030 to address the following areas: