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1. Advocating to explore how to eliminate all aspects of poverty will help to eradicate all aspects of poverty everywhere by 2030.

2. During 2013, there was a decrease in the global poverty rate from 28% in 1999 to 11%. United Nations, 2017c).

3. According to United Nation (2017c) Goal 1 emphasizes the global poverty rate has been 50 % less since 2000

4. Extreme poverty is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development

5. People’s lives impacted negatively, more efforts focus on income improvements, while individuals still living in life-threatening poverty, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, another people living in developing countries in remote communities.

6. Social protection systems need to expand, and risks need to mitigate for disaster-prone nations, which also tend to be the most disadvantaged countries.

7. During 2013, an estimated 767 million people lived below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day from 1.7 billion people in 1999 (United Nations, 2017).

8. References ESD-UNESCO – Mercy for Earth. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://mercyforearth.org/esd- unesco/ Goal 1.:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg1 Human progress. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.humanprogress.org/article.php?p=769 United Nations. (2017a). High-level political forum on sustainable development. Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/14379SDG1format-final_OD.pdf United Nations. (2017b). Poverty eradication. Sustainable Development Goal 1. Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/povertyeradication Goal 1.:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg1 United Nations. (2017c). Sustainable Development Goal 1. End Poverty in all its forms everywhere. Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg1 United Nations Development Program. (2016). Human Development Report. Human Development for Everyone. Retrieved from http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2016_human_development_report.pdf World Bank Group (2017). Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality. Washington, DC: World Bank. Retrieved from https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25078

9. According to United Nations (2017c) ; Human progress (n.d).; and Goal 1.:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform (n.d.), during 2013, an estimated 767 million people lived below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day from 1.7 billion people in 1999.