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In this whiteboard animation, I explain how the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are interconnected (the SDG wedding cake) and how you can use them to understand how sustainable your country or your business is. 0:00 Introduction 0:41 The SDG wedding cake 3:04 Which country is more sustainable? 5:02 Using the SDGs for your business 6:07 Sponsor & Endcard Links & references: Triple bottom line: https://youtu.be/2f5m-jBf81Q https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/ Ecological & social sustainability principles: https://youtu.be/BO9_hQO9nTo and https://youtu.be/o6lSuwJw0pk https://futurefitbusiness.org/sdgs/ Coronavirus & Environment: https://youtu.be/R1h1L6vj3BI A simple, yet comprehensive, sustainability self-assessment tool that also generates company scores on the SDGs: open-source 3-in-1 Sustainability Assessment Toolkit: https://sustainabilityadvantage.com/frameworks/science-based-reporting-tools/ ** I create engaging sustainability videos to learn & teach. More sustainability videos on www.sustainabilityillustrated.com & http://www.youtube.com/learnsustainability Help us create more videos like this by becoming a patron: http://www.patreon.com/sustainability. Subscribe to receive the latest videos: http://alturl.com/jc8u6 Mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/7080080f1218/sustainability-illustrated Videos are created by Alexandre Magnin using years of experience drawing and working as a sustainability consultant with businesses and communities: http://www.amcreative.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/Sustain_Illustr Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sustainabilityillustrated LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandremagnin/ ** Resources: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2016-06-14-how-food-connects-all-the-sdgs.html https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/ https://youtu.be/tah8QlhQLeQ Cracking/Crunching sound by InspectorJ on Freesound.org Laptop photo: Samantha Borges on Unsplash Music/guitar: Alexandre Magnin inspired by Paul Davids’ finger picking https://youtu.be/m6b371mNkCw ** THANK YOU to Chocolate Choice for being a major patron at the time this video was posted. Check out their website to learn about chocolate production and how to buy chocolate that does not involve child slavery during its production: https://chocolatechoice.ca/