Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Free resources that align with your activity on the SDGs
CFR Education offers a range of free resources that can help you to teach about the SDGs. Browse articles, timelines, videos, assessments, and simulations that align with the individual goals.
1. No Poverty
| Reading | Has life gotten better for people around the world? Learn how improvements in health, education, and income are measured and explore three countries' opportunities and challenges with development. |
What Are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund? Reading |
What's the difference between the World Bank and the IMF? Understand two institutions that undergird global development and the international monetary system. |
| Reading | Explore how severe inequalities and disparities in wealth and income can harm individuals, countries, and the global economy, and how some governments implement policies to reduce inequality. |
3. Good Health and Well-Being
| Video | We have made advances in global health, but we face challenges from new disease trends—and need funding to treat them. |
| Reading | Experts agree that access to quality health care is the best way to improve global health. But health-care options vary greatly depending on where you are in the world. |
| Reading | What is the WHO? Learn how the UN agency in charge of international public health responds to crises that threaten global health coordination, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. |
5. Gender Equality
| Video | When migrants seek work abroad, what does their home country gain and lose? Explore one example of a country shaped by emigration, the Philippines. |
| Reading | Understand the various forms of human trafficking, including forced labor, forced marriage, and forced organ removal. |
6. Clean Water and Sanitation
| Reading | From the history of vaccines and medical quarantines to the origin of the World Health Organization, explore how innovations in global health increased human longevity and prepared the world for COVID-19. |
| Reading | In this free resource, explore how climate change disproportionately affects certain communities and could drastically increase global inequality. |
| Reading | Is there a global water crisis? In this free resource, learn how climate change is causing water scarcity to worsen worldwide. |
| Reading | How do water, oil, and gold cause wars? Learn how competition over natural resources fuels and finances fighting and how climate change intensifies those conflicts. |
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
| Reading | Learn how turning toward cleaner energy sources means factoring in economic and energy needs alongside environmental ones. |
| Reading | What is the IRA? In this free resource, learn what the United States' largest-ever climate change legislation does. |
| Video | Climate change poses energy security challenges, but building more renewable sources and taking other steps can help strengthen supply and lower risks. |
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
| Reading | Is the global population declining? Learn how changes in birth, death, and migration rates affect society, economics, and politics around the world |
| Reading | What are the terms, trends, and debates that define international development? Learn about the evolution of efforts to improve the world—including global infrastructure, education, and health. |
9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
| Reading | Learn about the Industrial Revolution and how technological innovations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries continue to shape society today. |
| Reading | Three innovations shaped how people and goods move around the world today. |
| Video | As Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution and India’s Green Revolution have shown, technological innovation can drive extraordinary development. Explore how digital advancements are further driving progress today. |
10. Reduced Inequalities
| Reading | In this free resource, explore how climate change disproportionately affects certain communities and could drastically increase global inequality. |
| Reading | Explore how severe inequalities and disparities in wealth and income can harm individuals, countries, and the global economy, and how some governments implement policies to reduce inequality. |
| Reading | What are the terms, trends, and debates that define international development? Learn about the evolution of efforts to improve the world—including global infrastructure, education, and health. |
13. Climate Action
| Reading | Explore how eleven countries are adapting to the effects of climate change in this free resource. |
| Reading | What is the Paris Agreement? In this free resource, learn what actions countries are taking to address the global threat of climate change. |
| Reading | In this free resource, explore how climate change disproportionately affects certain communities and could drastically increase global inequality. |
| Reading | In this free resource, explore seven ways countries are responding to a changing environment, from cap and trade policies to clean energy standards. |
| Reading | In this free climate change resource, learn how AI is helping countries reduce carbon emissions, but some innovations could ultimately contribute to a warming planet. |
| Reading | What is the IRA? In this free resource, learn what the United States' largest-ever climate change legislation does. |
16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
| Reading | Learn about the most prominent international organizations tackling the world’s biggest issues in this free resource. |
| Reading | Are countries less democratic than they used to be? Learn how democratic principles like checks and balances, free elections, and freedom of the press are under threat around the world. |
| Video | Explore the organizations and agreements that have promoted global peace and prosperity since the end of World War II, as well as the challenges that the liberal world order now faces in this video. |
| Reading | In this free resource, learn more about the United Nations’ most powerful body working to maintain international peace and security. Explore the security council’s failures and successes, and why the UN Security Council’s veto power is so controversial. |
| Reading | Explore the history of international law, important international agreements and the courts that aim to hold countries accountable, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. |