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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK FOR YOUTH IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC


Responsible Consumption and Production, 13: Climate Action and 4: Quality Education as the three most important SDGs in relation to tackling current environmental issues. The urgency to focus on these SDGs can be seen from the following facts:


SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production – around 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year whereas 2 billion people go hungry and are undernourished. At the same time, around the world about 2 billion people are obese or overweight.


SDG 13: Climate Action – since 1970, the number of natural hazard events has gone up by almost 400 per cent. Between 1901 and 2010, sea level has risen by 19 centimetres due to warming temperatures and melting ice.


SDG 4: Quality Education – 103 million young people What are your views?


Take a few minutes of your time today to share your ideas on the same questions: https://goo.gl/forms/JregH5XFblftNeGH3


Results will be presented at International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability to be held on World Environment Day on 5th June 2019


worldwide lack basic literacy skills and more than 60 per cent of them are women. In developing countries, one in four girls do not go to school.


Youth as game-changers


Asia and the Pacific is home to successful role models and champions. Take a look at the compilations of successful initiatives and stories in the region shown in the map below (Figure 42).


Young people are acting at various levels across the


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