Positioning Early Childhood Development as a Sustainable Development Goal Target: Challenges and Opportunities in the South Asian Context

This is a bibliographic review article on the reduction of inequalities in Colombia, focused on the Sustainable Development Goal 10, which is related to the National Development Plan of Colombia for the period 2010-2014 in order to identify the policies and programs developed in the country. It can be concluded that Colombia has been improving social conditions from early childhood and contributing to the formation of future generations; nevertheless Colombia still falls short in its education coverage.

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Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ◽

10.1057/s41599-021-00792-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Doreen S. Boyd ◽

Bertrand Perrat ◽

Xiaodong Li ◽

Bethany Jackson ◽

Todd Landman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

South Asian ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Earth Observation ◽

Spatiotemporal Patterns ◽

Sustainable Development Goal ◽

Development Goal ◽

Modern Slavery ◽

Development Goals

AbstractThis article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the extent of the prevalence of modern slavery and exploitative labour. This analysis represents the first of its kind in estimating the spatiotemporal patterns in the Bull’s Trench Kilns across the Brick Belt, as well as its connections with various UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a principal focus on Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 regarding the effective measures to end modern slavery by 2030, the article provides additional evidence on the intersections that exist between SDG 8.7 and those relating to urbanisation (SDG 11, 12), environmental degradation and pollution (SDG 3, 14, 15), and climate change (SDG 13). Our findings are then used to make a series of pragmatic suggestions for mitigating the most extreme SDG risks associated with brick production in ways that can improve human lives and human freedom.

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Monitoring changes in South Africa’s surface water extent for reporting Sustainable Development Goal sub-indicator 6.6.1.a

South African Journal of Science ◽

10.17159/sajs.2021/8806 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 117 (5/6) ◽

Author(s):

Heidi van Deventer

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Surface Water ◽

South African ◽

Aquatic Ecosystems ◽

The South ◽

Sustainable Development Goal ◽

Development Goal ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Progress Reporting ◽

Global Statistics

For the first progress reporting on the Sustainable Development Goal sub-indicator 6.6.1a in 2020, the South African and global statistics related to wetlands were compared. Firstly, in terms of the total wetland extent, the South African National Wetland Map version 5 (NWM5) represented 87% more inland, surface aquatic ecosystems than the Global Surface Water (GSW) product. More than half of the lacustrine systems and none of the palustrine and arid systems in NWM5 are represented in the GSW layer. Secondly, in terms of changes in the extent of wetlands, both the global and South African statistics showed a decreasing trend in the spatial extent of surface aquatic ecosystems in South Africa. These trends should be further investigated against systematic assessments of decadal drought periods. The hydroperiod information (permanent, seasonal and ephemeral inundation periods) of the GSW products show that South African lacustrine wetlands do not have a single dominant class (≥70% of the extent of a polygon) of inundation, but consist of a mosaic of these classes.

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