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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 presents an overview of the current state and trends for each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The user friendly and accessible information includes interactive storytelling and data visualizations.
The Atlas draws from the World Bankβs World Development Indicators database, as well as from a wide variety of relevant data sources from scientists and other researchers worldwide.
On the main page of the Atlas, you can click on any of the 17 SDGs and be presented with essential and up-dated facts and trends for this specific goal. Here are two examples with much shortened information:
When you click on SDG 2 Zero Hunger - Beyond hunger: ensuring food security for all you will learn the following:
After declining for a decade, the undernourished population is now rising. In 2019, more than 690 million people experienced hunger β an increase of nearly 60 million in 5 years.
Undernourishment is closely associated with severe food insecurity. Food insecurity manifests in different ways. These range from uncertainty around the ability to obtain food, to having to compromise on food quality and variety, to not eating for an entire day.
Today, one in four persons around the world experiences moderate or severe food insecurity, and one in eleven experiences severe food insecurity. Most households that experience food insecurity β nearly 1.3 billion out of 2 billion β are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa is staggering β more than half the population experiences it. Until 2018 the total number of people experiencing at least moderate food insecurity was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. After 2019, South Asia overtook Sub-Saharan Africa.
When you click on SDG 13 Climate Action - Floods, droughts and heat waves herald a changing climate, this is some of the information presented:
The current global population is around 7.8 billion. By 2030 it will be around 8.5 billion. Everyone will experience the effects of climate change. But the effects will not be felt equally.
From 2010 to 2019 more than 1.3 billion people were affected seriously enough by extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and cold waves to require emergency assistance.
Over that period floods and droughts were responsible for the greatest human impacts.
Climate change is expected to further increase the frequency and intensity of these events.
Extreme weather events like these disproportionately affect people living in lower-middle-income and low-income countries.
For example, in the last decade alone droughts and floods have affected an estimated 338 million people in India and 383 million people in China.
Lower income countries are not only more vulnerable to adverse climate change impacts than higher income countries, but also less equipped to deal with them.
And this is some of the information when you click on SDG 14 Life below Water - Marine species under threat:
Fish are crucial to the functioning of ecosystems as well as for human livelihoods and nourishment. Marine fish are the primary food source for approximately 1 billion people and marine fisheries employ about 60 million people. But over the years, overfishing has left many fish stocks so depleted that they can no longer replace themselves. Currently, 35 percent of global fish stocks are overfished, a dramatic rise over the 10 percent levels of the 1990βs.
Fish and other aquatic species are particularly vulnerable to threats from human activities, and aquatic species face much higher rates of extinction than terrestrial species such as birds and mammals. Today, 40 percent of amphibians, 30 percent of freshwater fish, and more than 30 percent of coral reefs and marine mammals are under threat.
Destructive fishing, such as bottom trawling, can damage seafloor ecosystems and indiscriminately catch everything it encounters.
Intensive shipping damages marine environments through the release of chemicals, transfer of invasive species, dumping of waste, and physical disturbances.
Marine protected areas have shown to be an effective means of safeguarding vulnerable species and ecosystems, conserving biodiversity, re-establishing ecosystem integrity, instituting clear guidelines, and sheltering the feeding and breeding areas of marine species.
Last updated 4 April 2021
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