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Solutions, the web series for changing the world

All over the world, women and men are devoting their time and energy to the creation of sustainable solutions for a more harmonious world. Energy Observer is heading off in search of them in a bid to promote their ideas and actions.

Discover the first 70 episodes of this web series on our dedicated Energy Observer Solutions platform.

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3 Promote the 17 SDGs

17 goals to change the world

In September 2015, the UN’s 193 member states passed the sustainable development by 2030 programme entitled Agenda 2030. It focuses on a vision for the transformation of our world through the eradication of poverty and by ensuring its transition to sustainable development. It is structured around the ‘5Ps’, at the service of the planet, populations, prosperity, peace and partnerships.

The 17 goals describe the perfect horizon for sustainable development by 2030 and it is centred as much on social justice as economic growth, peace, inclusiveness and the preservation of ecosystems. The 17 sustainable development goals (SDGS) must be attained collectively and implemented as much by industrialised countries as developing countries. Within the context of the current health crisis, no one is in any doubt that there will be a before and an after. This umpteenth warning reminds us just how essential it is to undergo a sea change in terms of our models and our behaviour.

In the view of one and all, the 17 SDGS look like the way forward. Experts and managers of all nationalities working on the effects of the crisis and the preparation of tomorrow’s world have really been driving the point home over recent months.

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Ademe
Ministère de la Transition Écologique
SDSN

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Problematic

The Goals are relatively unknown amongst the general public

Just 11% of the French population say they are familiar with the ‘United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’, whilst 53% admit they don’t know about them. These percentages have remained relatively stable since 2019.

And yet, the world over, women and men are devoting their time and energy to the creation of sustainable solutions for a more harmonious world.

Energy Observer is heading off in search of them in a bid to promote their ideas and their actions. From access to clean and affordable energy to build sustainable cities and communities, to innovations in the circular economy and responsible consumption, vectors of employment and economic growth, access to a high-quality education to guarantee gender equality and create a fairer world, the transition to well thought-out and responsible agriculture, an opportunity to combat world hunger and protect life both on land and on the water, and so on.

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Making-of Solutions in Italy

Solution

Solutions, the web series about the 17 SDGS

Energy Observer Solutions is a digital platform launched in June 2019. It shines a spotlight on the worldwide solutions in ecological and inclusive transition pinpointed by Energy Observer’s editorial and scientific committee and supported by the pioneers who are reinventing tomorrow’s world.

All these solutions are gathered together in video format and arranged around the Sustainable Development Goals. This platform has been thought out and fleshed out with the Ministry for Ecological Transition, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) created in 2012 by the UN Secretary-General, the International Association of Universities (IAU), the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) and UNESCO.

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17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN

Impact

An educational platform with a universal reach

These inspiring and positive 2 to 3-minute videos, whose tone and format is geared towards social networks, aim to introduce these protagonists of change to the wider public arena by providing a showcase for their solutions and their local projects.

These capsules are designed to raise public awareness about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out by the UN in the Agenda 2030, for which we are the primary French ambassador, and make them public, pass on their message and put them centre stage in the debate about our future.

“Everyone can have a role, inventing new, fairer systems for society and implementing practical projects and innovations, which will have a visible and positive impact on their district, their city or even their country. All the Sustainable Development Goals are interlinked and interconnected”. Victorien Erussard, captain and founder of Energy Observer.