SDGs Flashcards

Flashcards based on the lecture notes about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

What does SDGs stand for?

Sustainable Development Goals

The SDGs have been adopted by which member states?

United Nations

How many goals do SDGs consist of?

17

SDGs are at the heart of the ___ agenda for sustainable development.

2030

SDGs are also known as what?

Global goals

What is the relationship between all the SDGs?

Interconnected

MDGs stand for what?

Millennium Development Goals

The Agenda __ was adopted at the Earth Summit.

21

How many MDGs were given, which were later replaced by the SDGs?

8

The ‘D’ in DSDG stands for what?

Division

Which document, adopted at Rio+20 in 2012, emphasized the development of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

The Future We Want

The concept of sustainable development was first introduced in which report?

The Brundtland Report

Which of the following is a target of SDG 1?

Eradicate extreme poverty

What occurs when the body adapts to prolonged absence of food?

Malnutrition

What does the National ECCE policy in India stand for?

Early Childhood Care and Education

Approximately, what percentage of the human body is composed of water, highlighting the importance of SDG 6?

65%

Which SDG emphasizes "Affordable and Clean Energy"?

SDG 7

The SDGs are also known as what?

Global goals

The Global Hunger Index ranks countries based on which indicators?

Malnutrition, undernourishment, and child mortality

What absorbs about 30% of carbon dioxide produced by humans?

Oceans

Education is an important tool to achieve SDGs as a means of what?

Implementation

One of the essential characteristics of ESD is that it does what?

Uses interdisciplinary approaches

Education for Sustainable Development aims to do what?

Equip learners to address global challenges through informed actions

The Declaration on the Right to Development (1986) identifies which of the following as essential for sustainable development?

International cooperation

The concept of sustainability is what?

evolving

Which pedagogical approach is emphasized in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)?

Participatory and critical thinking methods

SDGs have one advantage over the MDGs that they are what?

universal

GDI stands for what?

Gender and Development Index

Peace education should do what?

Focus on all sections of society

One of the principles of ESD involves harmonizing economic development with what?

both social and environment development

Global citizenship refers to the belief that individuals are members of what?

Multiple diverse networks

Which domain of learning is not part of GCED?

Technical

The domains of GCED emphasize what?

Knowledge, empathy, and action

Global Citizenship Education (GCED) is directly linked to which SDG target?

4.7

UNESCO-MGIEP advocates for the integration of into education systems to promote global citizenship.

Social and emotional learning

The green economy has interconnected goals, but which of the following is NOT one of them?

Increasing social exclusion

TVET stands for what?

Technical and Vocational Education and Training

Global citizenship helps students develop an awareness of what?

Active collaboration and interdependence

Cultural and natural heritage serve to do what?

Strengthen national unity

Which of the following is emphasized as an under-recognized resource for sustainable development?

Cultural heritage

IGP stands for what?

Institutional Greening Plan

What highlights the classification of the shift in the work and worker requirements of an existing occupation due to green economic activities and technologies?

GESO

The International Framework for Greening TVET for a Green Society is a:

Three-tier approach

A holistic framework for TVET institutions is required to support what?

Both A and B

The National Green Growth Policy focuses on what?

All of the above

Green practices in the classroom is an indicator of what?

Green curriculum

Not-for-profit entrepreneurship is an example of what?

Social entrepreneurship

Commitment to end diseases like AIDS and malaria is focused on by which SDG?

SDG 3

Genetically defined human motor capacity is referred to as what?

physical fitness

Nutritional requirements for an individual are determined by what?

both A & B

Which of the following is not an indigenous system of medicine?

surgery

Which of the following is not a health system building block as suggested by WHO?

Politics

Technology in healthcare infrastructure can be used through what?

Mobile hospital

What in healthcare is how well a healthcare system meets its objectives?

Value

The National Digital Health Mission will help in better management using the open ___ framework.

API

The POSHAN Abhiyan in India was launched in which year?

2018

Sus-QI extends the scope of QI to include what?

ecological sustainability

What is the worst level of food security for a country?

Famine

The ___ program in India has been key source of extra nourishment for millions of school going children.

mid-day meal

Which of the following is not a pillar of food security?

Food tax

What systems provide water for countries with unreliable or low rainfall?

Irrigation

In high income countries, hunger is mainly caused due to what?

poverty

What as a form of malnutrition has to with quality of food and not quantity?

Hidden hunger

Which of the following is not a sustainable agriculture practice?

using chemical fertilizers

Which of the following is a positive impact of MGNREGA programme?

all of the above

According to research, mother’s education is positively associated with what?

all of the above

As the world population is growing, food production needs to rise by approximately ___ by 2030 to meet the needs.

50%

SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy) has how many major targets?

5

Which state has the highest renewable energy capacity?

Karnataka

The ___ had won the Peace Nobel in 2007 for its efforts in creating awareness for the fight against climate change.

IPCC

Renewable energy technologies provide what?

all of the above

Loss of biodiversity and risk of nuclear accidents are examples of impacts of extraction and use of fuels.

environmental

Which of the following is not a political and security driver of renewable energy?

improve public health

Hydrogen is produced mainly from a process.

thermochemical

Which of the following is the key EV industry body in India?

Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles

The agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change.

Paris

As a target of COP26, ___ is the agreed limit for the temperature to rise to avoid climate catastrophe.

1.5° C

Zero-carbon solutions are becoming competitive across economic sectors, representing __ % of emissions presently.

25

Which university in India offers a dual degree in electrical engineering with specialization in power and energy system?

IIT Kharagpur

Intentionally setting fire to straw that remains after grains like rice and wheat are harvested is called what?

stubble burning

The Okayama Commitments, Japan focus on what?

all of the above

Education is related to SDG 1 such that what?

education is critical to lifting people out of poverty

The ___ model structures sustainability competencies into cognitive, affective- motivational and behavioral goal dimensions .

frame

An affective goal commitment or a __ of actions, is the core of any motivation.

positively assessed sequence

Which of the following is false?

warfare is inherently constructive

The _ principle advocates to take action to avoid possibility of irreversible environmental or social harm.

precautionary

GAP on ESD stands for Global Programme.

Action

Which of the following is not a key competency for sustainable development?

isolative

___ pedagogy sees students as autonomous learners and emphasizes active development of knowledge.

Learner-centered

Experience for action-oriented learning may come from a what?

all of the above

Utopian story-telling and science-fiction thinking are some examples of ___ method in ESD.

vision building exercises

Which of the following is not a key competency area for assessment of ESD?

past thinking

The ___ intelligences represent a sum total of human capacities to influence, interact with, and communicate with our world.

multiple

____ intelligence refers to seeing and mapping the world in 3D.

Spatial

ESD assessment is a part of an what of planning, implementing, learning reflection and replanning?

interactive action/reflection

The idea of _ implies changes in individual action intertwined with reorganization of societal structures.

big transformation

Transformative learning and two major focuses: ___ and ___ learning.

instrumental, communicative

When a learner finds what they believed in the past is not accurate, they experience what?

a disorienting dilemma

Which of the following is not a key principle of adult education?

reluctance to learn

Following are the vital components/drivers of sustainable education, except what?

punishment