UN sustainable development goal: No poverty

The UN’s Sustainable Development Agenda seek to eliminate extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is described as a lack of the most basic essentials of life, including food, clothing, and shelter. The University of Vaasa focuses on themes such as energy and transportation poverty. Energy poverty is defined as the inability to meet basic demands due to high energy costs. Transport poverty is defined as the inability to travel to places where one’s basic requirements can be supplied with reasonable effort, expense, and time.

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UN's Sustainable Development Goals

Humanity faces significant challenges because of its own actions. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development addresses these challenges with a lofty objective: to place global development on a path to ensure human well-being and human rights, economic prosperity, and social stability in an environmentally sustainable manner. These are the challenges that the University of Vaasa is also addressing. Click on the icons below to see examples of our sustainability work.