The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals - What They Are and How to Meet the Task with Katherine Camp, P4G Partnerships

Katherine Camp from P4G partnerships discusses the importance and impact of the 2030 sustainability goals. For more on sustainability, check out our solving for sustainability dashboard.

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One of them that one of our partnerships works with is sustainable development goal 12, which is about responsible consumption and production. And one of those sub goals is which is to cut the amount of food loss and waste in half by 2030. And that is important for a number of reasons because not only does the food waste include embodied water use and energy use and carbon emissions that then are, for no good purpose. Nope. No good comes out of that. Because it's wasted, but also then the the food creates methane as it decomposes and, it's just. We don't need food waste. Nobody does. So the benefit of having that target is that all the countries, everyone knows we need to get to half. So what can we do? We can measure what, where we're at right now. We can, we, we have that target of how to get to half, and then we are developing solutions to to reach that. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/15382-the-2030-sustainable-development-goals-what-they-are-and-how-to-meet-the-task-with-katherine-camp-p4g-partnerships

One area for example, is in energy access. There's a huge gap in the financing that it's going to require to get everyone access to electricity particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. And one of our partnerships is called energize Africa and they are using crowdfunding. To invest in solar companies based in Sub-Saharan Africa and they're on track to get millions of people, access to clean electricity who didn't have access before. That financing gap is one of the obstacles that that can now be measured and tracked. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/15382-the-2030-sustainable-development-goals-what-they-are-and-how-to-meet-the-task-with-katherine-camp-p4g-partnerships

I think the rates of poverty have gone up and food insecurity. And I think there's just been a lot of challenges in a lot of these goal areas. Yeah, I think across the board, it's been hard for most countries and and individuals. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/15382-the-2030-sustainable-development-goals-what-they-are-and-how-to-meet-the-task-with-katherine-camp-p4g-partnerships

So the benefit of having that target is that all the countries, everyone knows we need to get to half. So what can we do? We can measure what, where we're at right now. We can, we, we have that target of how to get to half, and then we are developing solutions to to reach that. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/15382-the-2030-sustainable-development-goals-what-they-are-and-how-to-meet-the-task-with-katherine-camp-p4g-partnerships

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