What We Do

Inspiring educational concepts, creating innovative ideas for implementation, practicing environmental improvement, and achieving sustainable value development are our top priorities at GSIEDA, as well as achieving the United Nations' sustainable 17 SDGs.

Our 11 Goals Mission

We will achieve the 11 primary and 35 secondary educational goals of sustainable development as outlined in the SDGs.

Our 35 Targets Mission

We will achieve the 11 primary education goals and 35 secondary education goals of SDGs sustainability.

• By 2030, significantly reduce deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water, and soil pollution and contamination.

• By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care, and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.

• By 2030, reduce pollution, eliminate dumping of waste, and minimize releases of hazardous chemicals and materials to air, water, and soil, and increase substantially safe reuse and recycling globally, improving water quality.

• By 2030, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers, and lakes.

• By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries on water and sanitation-related activities and programs, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling, and reuse technologies.

• Support and strengthen local community involvement in improving water and environmental sanitation management.

• By 2030, substantially increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

• By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, and advanced clean fossil fuel technologies, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology.

• By 2030, expand infrastructure and technological upgrades according to the respective plans of developing countries, especially the least developed countries, small island developing states, and landlocked developing countries, to provide modern, sustainable energy for all services.

• Support the development of domestic technology, research, and innovation in developing countries, including policies that facilitate industrial diversification and value addition.

• By 2030, strengthen inclusive and sustainable urbanization processes, enhance country participation, integrated, and sustainable human settlements planning and management capacity.

• Strengthen the ability to protect and preserve world cultural and natural heritage.

• Support active economic, social, and environmental linkages between urban, suburban, and rural areas through strengthened national and regional development plans.

• By 2030, achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

• By 2030, manage hazardous chemicals and waste throughout their life cycle in accordance with agreed international rules and significantly reduce their release to air, water, and soil to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

• By 2030, significantly reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse.

• Encourage businesses, especially large multinational corporations, to adopt sustainable practices and incorporate sustainable development information into their regular reporting.

• Promote sustainable public procurement practices according to national policies and priorities.

• By 2030, ensure that people worldwide have relevant information and awareness regarding sustainable development and living in harmony with nature.

• Support developing countries in enhancing technological capabilities towards more sustainable consumption and production patterns.

• Develop and implement tools to monitor the impact of sustainable development on sustainable tourism, creating employment opportunities, and promoting local culture and products.

• Strengthen education in mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction, and early warning, increasing awareness and capacity of personnel and institutions.

• Fulfill commitments of developed countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, achieving the goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion annually by 2030 from a variety of sources to address the needs of developing countries in meaningful mitigation actions and to fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund as soon as possible.

• By 2030, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.

• Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.

• By 2030, ensure the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains, and drylands, in accordance with international obligations.

• By 2030, implement sustainable forest management in all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests, promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

• By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime.

• Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms.

• Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.

• Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

• Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.

• By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.

• Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements.

• Strengthen the capacity of domestic institutions to prevent and combat terrorism and violence.

• Strengthen the rule of law and promote human rights, including women's and children's rights, and the rights of persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities.

• Strengthen national and international efforts to combat cybercrime and illicit financial and arms flows.

• Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

• Enhance the capacity of developing countries, including small island developing States, to effectively manage their debt.

• Develop effective and sustainable national, regional and international solutions to address the debt problems of developing countries, through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress.

• Encourage the adoption of policies and regulations to promote sustainable tourism, which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products, and protects natural and cultural heritage.

• Strengthen the mobilization of domestic resources and enhance international cooperation for development, including through enhanced international support for developing countries to improve their domestic revenue collection.

• By 2030, significantly increase the availability of affordable and reliable high-speed internet in developing countries.

• Strengthen international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technologies.

• Support the development of domestic technology, research and innovation in developing countries, including through ensuring policies conducive to industrial diversification and value addition.

• Enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization processes, strengthen the participation, integrated planning and management capacity of cities, suburbs and rural areas.

• Protect and maintain the world's cultural and natural heritage.

• Support active economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas through the development of national and regional development plans.

• By 2030, achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

• Ensure environmentally sound management of chemicals and all waste throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

• Significantly reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

• Encourage businesses, especially large transnational corporations, to adopt sustainable practices and include information on sustainable development in their regular reporting.

• Promote sustainable public procurement practices according to national policies and priorities.

• Ensure that people worldwide have relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

• Support the development of technological capacities in developing countries for sustainable consumption and production patterns.

• Develop and implement tools to monitor the impact of sustainable development on sustainable tourism, creating jobs and promoting local culture and products.

• Strengthen education, awareness-raising and capacity-building initiatives on mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning related to climate change.

• Fulfill developed countries' commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the target of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2030 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operational strengthen the international community's response to the adverse impacts of climate change and support developing countries in enhancing their resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters.

• Enhance education, awareness raising and capacity building on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

• Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible.

• Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities.

• Recognize and value the knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities relating to traditional and sustainable use of biodiversity, land and water resources, and enhance their participation in the implementation of the Convention, including in monitoring and decision-making.

• Promote public participation in addressing climate change and developing and implementing effective climate change-related policies.

• Encourage and facilitate the participation of local communities in the development and implementation of policies and programmes that address climate change.

• Promote and support the availability of appropriate, affordable and sustainable technology, including renewable energy, and improve energy efficiency.

• Promote the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favorable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.

• Fully operationalize the Technology Mechanism and the Climate Technology Centre and Network and enhance collaboration between the Technology Executive Committee and the Climate Technology Centre and Network with other relevant technology and research and development organizations, including the private sector, to promote the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies for mitigation and adaptation that are technologically sound, economically viable and socially and environmentally acceptable.

• Enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for the implementation of mitigation and adaptation actions, and technology cooperation and development, for the least developed countries and small island developing States.

• Strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, including through the provision of adequate and predictable financial and technological support to enhance their capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, strengthen their resilience to climate-related hazards and natural disasters and to foster climate-compatible development.

• Promote mechanisms to facilitate the access of developing country Parties to affordable, environmentally sound and state-of-the-art technology, including through the implementation of the Technology Mechanism, and to promote and cooperate on research and development of new technology and on the transfer and dissemination of existing technology.