Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Agenda
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, is a global framework featuring 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. The UNESCO Chair in Oceans, Clean Water, and Health at UCSF is focused on advancing actionable progress toward SDGs 3, 6, 13, and 14.
SDG3 | Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Target 3.9 | By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water, and soil pollution and contamination.
Target 3.d | Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction, and management of all national and global health risks.
SDG6 | Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Target 6.3 | By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping, and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
Target 6.5 | By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate.
Target 6.a | By 2030, xpand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programs, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling, and reuse technologies.
Target 6.b | Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management.
SDG13 | Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Target 13.1 | Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
Target 13.3 | Improve education, awareness-raising, and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction, and early warning.
Target 13.b | Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth, and local and marginalized communities.
SDG14 | Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development (oceans), and associated public health and climate resilience co-benefits.
Target 14.1 | By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.
Target 14.2 | By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans.
Target 14.3 | Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.
Target 14.5 | By 2020, conserve at least 10 percent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information.