UNAI Quiz: 2022 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past 15 years, the global community has made significant effort in including and engaging women and girls in science, yet women and girls continue to be excluded from participating fully in this field. Despite the challenges of gender and racial discrimination within the scientific community, countless inspiring women have made historic contributions to science and have helped advance research that helps us better understand our world.
In order to promote gender equality and empowerment of women, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
UNAI Quiz: International Migrants Day
Throughout human history, migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity and to live a better life. Today, globalization, together with advances in communications and transportation, has greatly increased the number of people, who have the desire and the capacity to move to other places.
To observe this year’s International Migrants Day, we highlight the contributions made by the hundreds of millions of migrants around the world! This quiz deals with the challenges that migrants face, and how they persevere to overcome them.
Test your knowledge with our quiz on International Migrants Day!
UNAI Quiz: SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
The Goal of the Month for December is SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, which aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
The world is still a long way from achieving that goal. Hundreds of millions of people are living in fragile and conflict-affected States. By the end of 2020, about 1 per cent of the global population – 82.4 million people – had been forcibly displaced because of persecution, conflict or violence. However, in some areas progress is being made.
UNAI Quiz: World Children’s Day Quiz
World Children’s Day is celebrated each year on 20 November, the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The aim of World Children’s Day is to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children's welfare. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a child rights crisis. The costs of the pandemic for children are immediate and, if unaddressed, may last a lifetime.
UNAI Quiz: SDG 13 – Climate Action
Climate change is affecting every country on every continent, disrupting national economies and affecting lives. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, and weather events are becoming more extreme. As countries move toward rebuilding their economies after COVID-19, recovery plans can shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, safe and more resilient.
The current crisis is an opportunity for a profound, systemic shift towards a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet. This quiz deals with SDG 13: Climate Action, and how we can chart a safer and more sustainable future for the citizens of the world.
UNAI Quiz: World Food Day
In November 1979, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) adopted Resolution 1/79 at its conference, inviting FAO member countries to observe World Food Day every year on 16 October. This year marks the 41st observance of the Day. This World Food Day is the second to be marked during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had devastating repercussions for food security worldwide.
Test your knowledge on food, hunger and the global food system with our quiz!
UNAI Quiz: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
There are over millions of indigenous peoples living in countries across the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated many existing inequalities, disproportionately affecting populations all over the world that were already suffering from poverty, illness, discrimination, institutional instability or financial insecurity. From the perspective of indigenous peoples, the contrast is even starker.
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August) this year, the United Nations demands indigenous peoples’ inclusion, participation and approval in the constitution of a system with social and economic benefits for all. The theme of this year is “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract”.
UNAI Quiz: SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
Access to electricity in poorer countries has begun to accelerate, energy efficiency continues to improve, and renewable energy is making impressive gains in the electricity sector. While the world has seen progress in making energy more sustainable and widely available, more attention is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy.
Annual investments of around USD $35 billion could bring electricity access for people who currently lack it, and $25 billion a year can help people gain access to clean cooking between now and 2030. The required investment represents only a small fraction of the multi-trillion-dollar global energy investment needed overall, but would bring huge benefits to one-third of the world’s population. This quiz focuses on SDG7 to discuss why affordable and clean energy matters for all.
UNAI Quiz: World Population Day
The current state of the world’s population is one of unprecedented diversity and change. In 2011, the global population reached the 7 billion mark, and today, it stands at about 7.7 billion, and it's expected to grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and 10.9 billion in 2100.
This trend has far-reaching implications. Population growth affects economic development, employment, income distribution, poverty and social protections. It also impacts efforts to ensure universal access to health care, education, housing, sanitation, water, food and energy. To more sustainably address the needs of individuals, policymakers must understand how many people are living on the planet, where they are, how old they are, and how many people will come after them.
UNAI Quiz: World Refugee Day
20 June is World Refugee Day, a day to recognize the strength, courage, and resilience of refugees. Every minute 20 people are forced to leave everything behind to escape war, persecution, or terror. While it is important to protect and improve the lives of refugees every single day, international days like World Refugee Day help to focus global attention on the plight of those fleeing conflict or persecution and highlight the need to fight for a more inclusive and equal world: a world where no one is left behind.
UNAI Quiz: Socioeconomic Trends/ Outlook SDG 8,9,12,14 and 17
The COVID-19 pandemic is more than a health crisis; it is an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, a security crisis, and a human rights crisis. This crisis has highlighted severe fragilities and inequalities within and among nations.
On the bright side, the ongoing crisis offers an opportunity to develop recovery plans that build a more sustainable future. Under the overarching theme of “Socioeconomic Trends/ Outlook”, this quiz focuses on the SDGs 8,9,12,14 and 17 to discuss how the social and economic environments have transformed due to the ongoing pandemic and the prospects for the future.
Test your knowledge with our quiz!
UNAI Quiz: Goal of the Month – the Environment (SDGs 13, 14 and 15)
We have been exploiting and destroying our planet’s ecosystems for too long. Every three seconds, the world loses enough forest to cover a football pitch. Half of our wetlands have been destroyed over the last century.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) finds that a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will make no significant difference to long-term climate change. The world is still heading for a catastrophic temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century – far beyond the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C.
UNAI Quiz: International Day for Biological Diversity
The International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May highlights the growing recognition that biological diversity is a global asset of tremendous value to future generations, and looks to raise awareness about the numbers of species that are being significantly reduced by certain human activities. The loss of diversity threatens our food supplies, opportunities for recreation and tourism, and sources of wood, medicine, and energy.
Biodiversity also offers excellent tools for combating pandemics like those caused by coronaviruses. From nature-based solutions to climate, health issues, food and water security, and sustainable livelihoods, it is the foundation upon which we can build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNAI Quiz on Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Sustainable and inclusive economic growth can drive progress, create decent jobs for all and improve living standards. Economic prosperity requires societies to create conditions that allow people to have quality jobs that stimulate the economy while not harming the environment. Increased commitments to trade, banking and agricultural infrastructure will also help increase productivity and reduce unemployment levels in the world’s most impoverished regions.
COVID-19 has disrupted billions of lives and endangered the global economy. As job losses escalate, the International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that nearly half of the global workforce is at risk of losing their livelihoods. The economic and financial shocks associated with COVID-19 such as disruptions to industrial production, falling commodity prices, financial market volatility, and rising insecurity are threatening economic growth globally.
UNAI Quiz: International Mother Earth Day
Mother Earth is a common expression to refer to our living planet. The phrase also reflects the interdependence that exists among human beings, other living species and the planet we all inhabit. Through rapid human development worldwide, we are increasingly aware of the damage our species has wrought on the planet – pollution, dwindling resources, and the disappearance of flora and fauna. The UN designated 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009.
Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide at rates unprecedented in human history. It is estimated that around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. In order to achieve a just balance among the economic, social, and environmental needs of present and future generations, we need a shift to a more sustainable economy that works for people, other living species, and the planet.