Learn in the textbookCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Initiatives
DefinitionThe SDGs (持続可能な開発目標) are the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015 with a deadline of 2030.
ExplanationThe SDGs are divided into 17 goals covering issues that span society, the economy and the environment, such as ending poverty and tackling climate change. Companies and individuals, not only countries and international organizations, are expected to take part, so the goals also give companies a guide for shaping their social responsibility.
AnalogyLike a term goal sheet the whole class agreed on, countries, companies and individuals all look at the same items and work on them from their own positions.
Memory hookIt is formed from the initials of Sustainable Development Goals, and the lowercase s at the end shows that Goals is plural (there are 17).