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TEDxGlasgow - Impact & Sustainability

Alignment with 11 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

 

 

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Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

We focus on our speakers and workshops sharing a variety of information, helping to build on areas for a healthy lifestyle with talks ranging from illness recovery, active lifestyle challenges, talking openly about mental health and disabilities, and looking into the future of healthcare.

Goal 4: Quality Education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Our volunteer programs and partnerships provide hands-on learning for all ages to gain skills in topics that will support future job opportunities and entrepreneurship.

Goal 5: Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Our leadership and volunteer team is reflective of the demographics they serve with a regular 50:50 gender distribution. We are committed to encouraging and fostering a diverse and inclusive community. 

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

We’ve grown the rate and amount of impact delivered over years, creating more opportunities for challenged sectors such arts and creative industries, and developed talent to showcase new skills into entrepreneurship and career changes.

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Reduce inequality within and among countries

Our fully open event platform is accessible to all backgrounds and sectors with free and reduced access for youth, those with disabilities and low incomes and a livestream accessible to remote regions. 

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Make cities and human settlement inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Our TED licensed platform provides community stakeholders in towns and cities around the world to fully access information that they can use to make informed lifestyle choices and influence local policy and legislation.

Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Every event we organise or support, looks to source local talent, products and showcase best practice of effective use. Careful planning, recycling and re-use is part of our operations, and we encourage our partners to reflect this approach with us through their sustainability tracking where possible.

Goal 13: Climate Action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

TEDxGlasgow contributes towards building a network of forests around Scotland to represent our attendees as part of every event held, and have talks that cover topics of sustainability, plastics and climate action.

Goal 15: Life on Land

Protect, promote and restore sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss

We are committed to helping people better understand their environment which is interconnected with the ecosystems we share with other living organisms and non-living objects, delivering on this through our event experience and talk subjects.

Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Open event platforms build support for projects that target resiliency in both communities lacking government support and infrastructure. As leadership we support an inclusive, safe, open, transparent society, with community-driven innovation on ideas worth doing.

Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the goal partnership for sustainable development

We proudly work with partners and groups across the public, private and social spectrum, with a focus to take positive action through the dissemination and sharing of information, knowledge, expertise, and technology through open TEDx standards.