Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
Rhodes University
Rhodes University is committed to playing a leading role in the Eastern Cape and South Africa with respect to environmental responsibility, in order to promote practices that support a safe, healthy and sustainable environment for all who live in it - a social-ecological perspective of sustainability.
To this end, Rhodes seeks to pursue a policy of environmental best practice, and include social and ecological justice considerations in decisions relating to the University's curricula, research and management policies.
The Rhodes University Library provides access to information for each of the seventeen (17) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Promote Rhodes University's multi-disciplinary SDG research Institutes/Centres and programmes
Enhance the visibility and discoverability of the discipline-specific programmes and researchers
Promote the publishers and partnerships who are committed to the SDGs
"Libraries play a vital role in improving outcomes across the SDGs. They promote universal literacy, provide access to information, advance digital inclusion, preserve and provide access to the world's culture and heritage, serve as centers for research and much more." (Ross, T. 2021. Driving progress: Libraries and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, Part One. EBSCOpost (blog). https://tinyurl.com/48ua55cc)
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