GE 5 - CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Name of Group Members:
1. Talambayan, Jomar M.
2. Torres, Vanessa
3. Velasco, Keiden Draco
4. Velasco, Neil Patrick
5. Veridiano, Crich Joved
6. Violanta, Joanha
Fill out the table with the needed information on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Use the
website of the United Nations as your reference.
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
Sustainable Goals
1. End Poverty in all its
forms everywhere
Problems
Covid-19 pandemic reverse the
efforts made by the UN to reduce
poverty globally.
Actions/ Response
The United Nations has released
a Framework for the Immediate
Socioeconomic Response to
COVID-19, which calls for a
massive increase of international
assistance and political
commitment to ensure that
people everywhere have access
to basic services and social
security.
The UN COVID-19 Response and
Recovery Fund is designed to
help low- and middle-income
countries, as well as
disadvantaged people, who are
disproportionately affected by
the pandemic's socioeconomic
effects. Women leaders gathered
by UN Deputy Secretary-General
Amina Mohammed have asked
for full funding of the UN
Response and Recovery Fund and
support for the UN roadmap for
social and economic recovery.
2. Zero Hunger 135 million people suffer from
hunger due to man-made
conflicts, climate change,
economic downturns, and
pandemic.
3. Ensure healthy lives and COVID-19 is a worldwide health
promote well-being for emergency that has
all at all ages demonstrated the crucial
necessity for preparedness.
COVID-19 is spreading human
agony, undermining the global
economy, and upending the lives
of billions of people around the
world, unlike any prior global
health disaster.
To combat these dangers, the
Food and Agriculture
Organization recommends that
countries:
To meet the acute dietary needs
of their most vulnerable people,
Boost social assistance programs.
Maintain the global food trade,
Maintain the domestic supply
chain's momentum, and
Aid smallholder farmers in
increasing their food production.
The World Health Organization
(WHO) has been at the forefront
of the international fight to
combat COVID-19. The WHO and
partners' Strategic Preparedness
and Response Plan lays out the
public health steps that nations
should take to prepare for and
respond to COVID-19. The April
2020 Strategy Update provides
additional recommendations for
the public health response to
COVID-19 at the national and
subnational levels, as well as
highlighting the need for
coordinated international
cooperation to face the challenge
of COVID-19.

People and organizations who

4. Quality Education
When the COVID-19 pandemic
want to help fight the pandemic
and support WHO and partners
can donate to the COVID-19
Solidarity Response Fund, which
supports WHO's efforts to track
and understand the virus's
spread, ensure patients receive
the care they need and frontline
workers receive essential
supplies and information, and
accelerate research and
development of a vaccine and
treatments for everyone who
needs them.
In March 2020, UNESCO
 spread across the globe in 2020,
schools were shut in most
countries to control the outbreak
of the disease. By April 2020,
close to 1.6 billion children and
youth were out of school. And
nearly 369 million children who
relied on school meals needed to
look to other sources for daily
nutrition.
5. Gender Equality Women continue to be
underrepresented at all levels of
political leadership, and 1 in 5
women and girls between the
ages of 15 and 49 report
experiencing physical or sexual
violence by an intimate partner
within a 12-month period. In
addition, the coronavirus
outbreak exacerbates existing
inequalities for women and girls
across every sphere – from
health and the economy, to
security and social protection.
With lockdown measures in
place, many women are trapped
at home with their abusers,
struggling to access services that
are suffering from cuts and
restrictions.
6. Clean Water and One third of the world's
Sanitation population lacks access to safe
drinking water, two out of five
launched the COVID-19 Global
Education Coalition, a multi-
sector partnership between the
UN family, civil society
organizations, media and IT
partners to design and deploy
innovative solutions. The
coalition helps countries tackle
content and connectivity gaps,
and facilitates inclusive learning
opportunities for children and
youth during this period of
sudden and unprecedented
educational disruption.
UNICEF worked with
governments and education
partners in 145 low- and middle-
income countries to develop
plans for a rapid, system-wide
response including alternative
learning programmes and mental
health support.
UN Women has developed a
rapid and targeted response to
mitigate the impact of the
COVID-19 crisis on women and
girls, with a focus on five
priorities: gender-based violence,
including domestic violence;
social protection and economic
stimulus packages; people
support and practise equal
sharing of care work; women and
girls lead and participate in
planning, decision making and
coordination mechanisms; and
data collection mechanisms
include gender perspectives.
The COVID-19 pandemic offers
an opportunity to redress long-
standing inequalities in multiple
areas of women’s lives, and build
a more just and resilient world.
UNICEF is appealing for funding
and support in order to provide
basic water, sanitation and
 people lack basic hand-washing
facilities with soap and water,
and more than 673 million
people still practice open
defecation.
7. Affordable and Clean Lack of access to energy may
Energy hamper efforts to contain COVID-
19 across many parts of the
world. Energy services are key to
preventing disease and fighting
pandemics. 789 million people –
predominantly in sub-Saharan
Africa – are living without access
to electricity. If hospitals and
local communities don't have
access to power, this could
magnify the human catastrophe
and significantly slow the global
recovery.
hygiene facilities to girls and boys
in remote areas, urban slums,
and places where water is
untreated or polluted.
To prevent the spread of COVID-
19, the International
Organization for Migration (IOM)
is working with partners to
provide WASH services that
include running water and
handwashing in informal
settlements. The organization is
also adjusting its services in
affected, at-risk, low-capacity
and fragile countries by providing
support for infection prevention
control in health facilities.
The world is making progress
towards Goal 7, with
encouraging signs that energy is
becoming more sustainable and
widely available. Access to
electricity in poorer countries has
begun to accelerate, energy
efficiency continues to improve,
and renewable energy is making
impressive gains in the electricity
sector.
Nevertheless, more focused
attention is needed to improve
access to clean and safe cooking
fuels and technologies for 3
billion people, to expand the use
of renewable energy beyond the
electricity sector, and to increase
electrification in sub-Saharan
Africa.
The Energy Progress Report
provides global dashboard to
register progress on energy
access, energy efficiency and
renewable energy. It assesses the
progress made by each country
on these three pillars and
provides a snapshot of how far

8. Decent Work and
Economic Growth
9. Industry, Innovation, and
Infrastructure
The COVID-19 pandemic has
caused a historic recession with
record levels of deprivation and
unemployment, creating an
unprecedented human crisis that
is hitting the poorest hardest. It
calls for an extraordinary scale-
up of international support and
political commitment to ensure
that people everywhere have
access to essential services and
social protection.
Information and communication
technologies have been on the
frontlines of the COVID-19
response. The crisis has
accelerated the digitalization of
many businesses and services.
Once the acute phase of the
crisis is over, governments will
need investments in
infrastructure more than ever.
The World Bank estimates that
developing countries need to
we are from achieving the 2030
Sustainable Development Goals
targets.
Sustained and inclusive economic
growth can drive progress, create
decent jobs for all and improve
living standards.
COVID-19 has disrupted billions
of lives and endangered the
global economy. The
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) expects a global recession
as bad as or worse than in 2009.
As job losses escalate, the
International Labor Organization
estimates that nearly half of the
global workforce is at risk of
losing their livelihoods.
Even before the outbreak of
COVID-19, one in five countries –
home to billions of people living
in poverty – were likely to see
per capita incomes stagnate or
decline in 2020. Now, the
economic and financial shocks
associated with COVID-19—such
as disruptions to industrial
production, falling commodity
prices, financial market volatility,
and rising insecurity—are
derailing the already tepid
economic growth and
compounding heightened risks
from other factors.
Inclusive and sustainable
industrialization, together with
innovation and infrastructure,
can unleash dynamic and
competitive economic forces that
generate employment and
income. The pandemic is hitting
manufacturing industries hard
and causing disruptions in global
value chains and the supply of
products. Innovation and
technological progress are key to
 invest around 4.5 per cent of
GDP to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals.
10. Reduced Inequalities COVID-19 has exacerbated
disparities by disproportionately
affecting the poorest and most
vulnerable people. It has brought
attention to economic inequities
and shaky social safety nets,
which have left vulnerable
groups bearing the brunt of the
crisis. Simultaneously, social,
political, and economic
disparities have exacerbated the
pandemic's effects.
11. Sustainable Cities More than half of the world's
population has lived in cities
since 2007, and that percentage
is expected to climb to 60% by
2030. Rapid urbanization is
leading to an increase in slum
dwellers, insufficient and
overcrowded infrastructure and
services (such as trash collection,
water and sanitation systems,
roads and transportation),
increased air pollution, and
unplanned urban sprawl.
finding lasting solutions to both
economic and environmental
challenges. Making infrastructure
resilient to disasters and climate
change will require an additional
$434 billion per year.
The United Nations Secretary-
General has called for solidarity
with the world's poorest and
most vulnerable people, who
require immediate assistance in
dealing with the biggest
economic and social catastrophe
in centuries. "Now is the
moment to keep our promise to
leave no one behind," added the
Secretary-General.
The United Nations has called for
a massive increase in
international aid and political
commitment, including funding
through the UN COVID-19
Response and Recovery Fund,
which aims to help low- and
middle-income countries and
vulnerable groups who are
disproportionately affected by
the pandemic's socio-economic
effects. To ensure that people
have access to essential and
social protection.
The UN agency for housing and
urban development, UN-Habitat,
is assisting national and local
governments in preparing for,
preventing, responding to, and
recovering from the COVID-19
pandemic.
The UN Habitat COVID-19
Response Plan aims to: Provide
urban data, evidence-based
mapping, and knowledge for
informed decision-making;
Support local governments and
community-driven solutions in
informal settlements; Mitigate

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13. Climate Action Every country on every continent
is affected by climate change. It
is wreaking havoc on national
economies and people. Weather
patterns are shifting, sea levels
are increasing, and extreme
weather is getting more often.
Although travel limitations and
economic slowdowns caused by
the COVID-19 pandemic are
expected to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by roughly 6% in
2020, this improvement is only
temporary. Climate change is
unabated. Emissions are
projected to return to higher
levels after the global economy
recovers from the pandemic.
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Recovery.
The United Nations Secretary-
General has identified six
climate-friendly steps for states
to consider as they rebuild their
economies and societies:
Investments must speed the
decarbonization of all elements
of our economy during the green
transition.
Green jobs and inclusive, long-
term growth
Green economy: Increasing the
resilience of societies and people
via a transition that is equitable
and leaves no one behind.
Invest in long-term solutions:
fossil fuel subsidies must be
phased out, and polluters must
be held accountable for their
pollution.
Face all climatic threats
Cooperation is essential for every
country to succeed.
Governments all around the
world have spent a lot of time
and effort in recent years on
strategies to help their
inhabitants live in a safer and
more sustainable future.
Including these in recovery plans
now can help the world recover
more quickly from the current
crisis.