World days 2023

SDG9: Industry, innovation & infrastructure

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive & sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

A compassionate approach to infrastructure, industry, and innovation starts with communities instead of commodities.

SDG4: Quality education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Education is not just about knowledge acquisition — it changes attitudes and social norms, which accelerates progress toward many sustainable development goals.

SDG7: Affordable & clean energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Repositioning access to clean and affordable energy as a human right may counter the governing global economic system that profits from fossil fuel consumption.

SDG5: Gender equality

Achieving gender equality and empower all women and girls

Achieving gender equality requires attention and action on eliminating the root causes of discrimination against women.

SDG10: Reduced inequalities

Reduce inequality within and among countries

Compassion implores us to see inequality as intersectional.

SDG6: Clean water & sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene is foundational to human and planetary health and well-being. But meeting targets requires a four-fold increase in the pace of progress.

SDG3: Good health & wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Healthy populations are critical to sustainable development, but progress remains uneven and inequitable.

SDG15: Life on land

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Compassion provides the motivation and understanding to end land exploitation so that we may promote human health and ensure human flourishing.

SDG8: Decent work and economic growth

Promote sustained, inclusive & sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

Healthy and sustainable economic growth is only possible if workers are valued as contributing to a united humanity and paid a living wage.

SDG14: Life below water

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

The ocean is the planet's largest ecosystem—and it's endangered.

SDG12: Responsible consumption & production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Unsustainable consumption and production are driving the "big three" planetary crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

SDG16: Peace, justice & strong intuitions

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

SDG13: Climate action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Climate change is the single biggest threat facing humanity.

SDG2: Zero hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

There is enough food produced globally to feed everyone. But if current patterns persist, we will not achieve zero hunger by 2030.

SDG1: No poverty

End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

COVID-19, climate change, and conflict have led to the first rise in extreme poverty in a generation.

SDG11: Sustainable cities & communities

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

By 2030, 60% of the world's population is projected to reside in cities, making them a critical focus of compassionate design.

SDG17: Partnerships for the goals

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development.

Successful partnerships rooted in strong human relationships are the engine to achieve all other SDGs.