Education
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New Book by Co-Chair Sarah Mendelson on SDG16

New book, Higher Education and Goal 16, by SDSN USA Co-Chair Amb. Sarah Mendelson, suggests that SDG 16 “offer[s] a refreshed way to research and teach human rights and social justice in the twenty first century.”

New Book by Co-Chair Sarah Mendelson on SDG16
Education, Sustainable Cities
SDSN USA
New Pedagogical Resources in Spanish on SDG 11 ...

In collaboration between the Global Schools Program, UNA-USA Puerto Rico, and the Department of Education of Puerto Rico, a training workshop focused on integrating the SDGs into classrooms produced new pedagogical resources in Spanish.

New Pedagogical Resources in Spanish on SDG 11 and SDG13

San Diego Regional Decarbonization Framework: A Model for Other Jurisdictions Across the US and Globally

The global scientific consensus is unequivocal: the world is in the midst of a climate crisis and our window to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) is closing. In order to reduce the worst impacts of climate change, the international community has agreed that societies must limit the rise in mean global temperature to well below 2°C, as specified by the Paris Agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Key Takeaways from the SDSN USA Network Update Meeting

Key Takeaways from the SDSN USA Network Update Meeting

On May 6th, 2022, SDSN USA held a virtual Network Update Meeting, convening network members, partner organizations, and potential members for two hours. The meeting included network updates from SDSN USA staff and co-chairs Helen Bond (Howard University), Dan Esty (Yale University), Gordon McCord (UC San Diego), and Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University), as well as a discussion of SDSN USA network activities.

A Poor People's Pandemic Report: Mapping the Intersection of Poverty, Race and COVID-19

A report to connect COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. to both poverty and race will be released April 4 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., by the Poor People’s Campaign and a team of world renowned economists, researchers and experts.

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Exploring Equitable Approaches to Ending Hunger in America: Food, Farming, Families, and Justice

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In honor of Women’s History Month and National Nutrition Month, SDSN USA hosted Zero Hunger Pathways Project Dialogue 5: Exploring Equitable Approaches to Ending Hunger in America on March 28th, 2022. Jointly organized by US SDSN’s Zero Hunger Pathways Project (ZHPP), Diversity, Equity, and Justice for Sustainable Development (DEJ) Working Group, and Howard University’s Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership, it explored the impact of historic inequities and what policies and approaches are needed to address racial and gender inequities to put the country on the pathway to zero hunger.

What’s Essential to Making our American Society Sustainable? A Target.

As systems leaders in networks everywhere who are working to “make things better”, it’s important that we direct our work toward achieving identifiable goals within a framework we can work with to navigate our complex society. The good news is that we now have a U.S. endorsed framework, adopted by most nations around the world, called “The Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs).