{"id":2714,"date":"2017-09-26T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T12:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fairfood.org\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2021-06-29T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T09:28:54","slug":"welcome-to-the-sdg-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairfood.org\/en\/resources\/welcome-to-the-sdg-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the SDG house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to the SGD house<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A world first: Monday, the first SDG House in the world was officially opened at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SDG House is a community formed by the companies and organizations based in KIT, all contributing to the realization of the SDGs\u2014the Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>. These 17 targets were drawn up by the United Nations in 2015 and seek to put an end to poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030. Or: they must have made the world \u201ca better place\u201d in 2030, the UN writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SDGs are the successors of the eight Millennium Development Goals that were drawn up in 2000. While the millennium development goals were of paramount importance, the SDGs focus more on sustainability. Another important difference is that the Millennium Development Goals spoke of needing help from \u2018rich\u2019 countries to \u2018poor\u2019 countries, where the SDGs apply to all countries. They are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All 48 organizations that are based in KIT, including Fairfood, actively work on one or more of these goals. The most obvious goals for us to tackle are \u2018ending poverty\u2019, \u2018ending hunger\u2019 and \u2018decent jobs and economic growth\u2019, but also \u2018women and men alike\u2019, \u2018less inequality\u2019 and \u2018sustainable consumption and production\u2019 are also on our to-do list. How we address these goals and corresponding sub-goals will be explained in separate blog posts in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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