Sustainable Development
The United Nations identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, aimed at improving human life quality, protecting the planet, and achieving sustainable development worldwide by 2030. Here are the key goals:
- End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition.
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
- Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
- Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
- Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
- Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization.
- Reduce inequality within and among countries and promote social inclusion and economic equality.
- Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
- Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources.
- Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
- Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Sustainable development aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It involves balanced economic, social, and environmental development to provide a better quality of life for humans while preserving ecological balance and sustainability. Achieving sustainable development requires the collaboration of governments, businesses, and civil society to achieve comprehensive and sustainable development.
The message of sustainable development is to achieve comprehensive and sustainable development for all, including humans and the planet. It aims for economic, social, and environmental progress at both local and global levels while maintaining environmental balance and preserving natural resources for future generations.
The activities of the nursing college in sustainable development include:
- Training students on challenges facing society regarding health, energy, and natural resources, and how to address them sustainably.
- Enhancing cooperation with relevant organizations to achieve sustainable development, such as charities, governmental institutions, and the local community.
- Providing learning and training resources for nurses and healthcare workers on sustainable development challenges through guidance files and workshops.
- Encouraging research and exploratory projects focusing on practical applications of sustainable development in health and medicine.
- Adopting sustainable behaviors and practices in the college’s daily activities, including regulatory, technical, and financial management, with particular attention to hazardous material management and waste management.
The nursing college aims to promote active participation in all aspects of sustainable development and is committed to the effective application of environmental, social, and economic best practices.
