Global Goals – the Most Significant Plans for Good
Would you like to be part of this generation?
- the first generation to end extreme poverty,
- the most determined generation in history to end injustice and inequality,
- and the last generation to be threatened by climate change?
Of course you would!
On September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders will commit to 17 Global Goals to achieve these 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years.
The Global Goals for sustainable development aims to get these things done. In all countries. For all people.
Isn’t that wonderful?
Global Goals and What You Can Do
There are lots of fun ways that you can get involved with Global Goals:
- Visit the Global Goals website (here) and decide which of the Global Goals is your favourite (with 17 great goals, it’s hard to choose!). (I’m voting for Goal 13 – Climate Change)
- Take a Global Goals selfie (see how here) – share your favourite goal and share it
- Spread the word – share this post and the video below (sharing buttons above, below and right)
- Use the #GlobalGoals hashtag on social media – mention #GlobalGoals at least once a day
- Take the #DizzyGoals challenge – get dizzy – create a fun video of you / your family / your team
Why Sharing is So Important
If the goals are going to work, everyone needs to know about them.
You can’t fight for your rights if you don’t know what they are.
You can’t convince world leaders to do what needs to be done if you don’t know what you’re convincing them to do.
If the goals are famous, they won’t be forgotten.
The plan is to get the Global Goals
- onto every website and billboard,
- broadcast on every TV station and radio station,
- in every cinema and classroom,
- pinned to every community noticeboard
- and sent to every mobile phone.
But that won’t be enough.
We need everyone to share the Goals. In conversation, on e-mail, in debate, on products, at home, at work, at school – whatever it takes to Tell Everyone.
Stephen Hawking and Global Goals
Of course you’ve heard of Professor Stephen Hawking – the brilliant theoretical physicist and cosmologist, and you may have seen the film “The Theory of Everything” about his life.
Well, now he has a very important message for everyone – yes, everyone. That’s you, and me, and our families and friends.
Watch the video, or read the transcript below. Then please Share (sharing buttons above, below and right).
Global Goals Video Transcript:
Hello everyone, Stephen Hawkin here.
2015 is the year when world leaders sign up to the Global Goals. They are an ambitious list to eradicate poverty, save the environment and make the world a fairer place for everyone – where every woman and every man has the chance to live a healthy, secure life full of opportunity and love.
The more people who know about the Global Goals, the more likely our leaders are to stick to them. So this is our attempt to let every person in the world know what is at stake.
People cannot fight for their rights if they do not know what they are.
I would be hugely grateful if you would share this video with your friends, family and fans. Ask them to search for Global Goals online. To save the world, we need everyone to tell everyone.
I am very aware of the preciousness of time. Help us seize the moment.
The time to act is now!
Thank you.
Please Tell Everyone about Global Goals. We need to keep the momentum going after September 25th, so that world leaders don’t forget their commitments. Use the Sharing buttons all around this post, and use the #GlobalGoals hashtag all over social media. Thank you!
Yes, I would like to be part of that generation! I read through the global goals and you are right is hard to pick a favorite. I would have to narrow mine down to sustainable communities, climate change and zero hunger, but again they are all important.
I think with your 3 choices Lois, you’ve pretty much solved all the problems of the world!
It has long amazed me that we have apparently been able – for some time now – to solve world hunger, and yet we don’t. Here’s hoping the global goals are followed through by world leaders.