This year’s UBD SDG Short Film/Video Competition revolves around all the 17 SDG initiatives:

1. No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere. This goal aims to eradicate extreme poverty and ensure that all people have access to basic resources and services.
2. Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. This goal focuses on ensuring access to nutritious food for all and promoting sustainable farming practices.
3. Good Health and Well-being: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. This goal aims to reduce maternal and child mortality, combat diseases, and ensure universal access to healthcare services.
4. Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This goal emphasizes providing access to quality education, vocational training, and literacy programs.
5. Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This goal seeks to eliminate discrimination, violence, and harmful practices against women and girls and promote their equal participation in all areas of life.
6. Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This goal focuses on improving access to safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene practices.
7. Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. This goal promotes the use of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change.
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. This goal aims to create job opportunities, improve labor rights, and foster entrepreneurship and innovation.
9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation. This goal focuses on investing in infrastructure, technology, and research to support economic development and sustainability.
10. Reduced Inequalities: Reduce inequality within and among countries. This goal aims to address income inequality, social exclusion, and discrimination to ensure that everyone has equal opportunities and access to resources.
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. This goal promotes sustainable urban planning, affordable housing, access to basic services, and disaster risk reduction.
12. Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. This goal encourages resource efficiency, waste reduction, sustainable procurement, and environmentally friendly practices.
13. Climate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. This goal focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing resilience to climate-related hazards, and promoting sustainable practices.
14. Life Below Water: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development. This goal aims to protect marine ecosystems, reduce marine pollution, and promote sustainable fisheries.
15. Life on Land: Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss. This goal emphasizes the conservation and restoration of terrestrial habitats and biodiversity.
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. This goal focuses on promoting peace, rule of law, and good governance.
17. Partnerships for the Goals: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. This goal emphasizes the importance of collaboration between governments, civil society, the private sector, and other stakeholders to achieve the SDGs.