Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Implementation of the SDGs started worldwide in 2016. This process can also be called Localizing the SDGs. In 2019 António Guterres (secretary-general of the United Nations) issued a global call for a Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. [111] This decade will last from 2020 to 2030.
By 1992, it was the nation's third-largest such state agency, with 1,500 employees and a budget of some $650 million. [2] In 1993, the state merged the DER with the substantially larger Department of Natural Resources, creating the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. [3] Virginia Bass Wetherell was named Secretary of the new agency.
A 2018 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, titled: Underwater: Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate stated that Florida is the state with the most homes at risk from climate change: "about 1 million homes (more than 10% of the state's current residential properties)."
The SDGs take a much more comprehensive approach to sustainable development than the MDGs did. They offer a more people-centred development agenda. Out of the 17 SDGs, for example, 11 goals contain targets related to equity, equality or inclusion, and SDG 10 is solely devoted to addressing inequality within and among countries. [11]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us more ways to reach us
∎ In Florida, the 9.8 inches of snow measured in Milton more than doubled the previous state record set nearby in 1954. Farther north, parts of the Outer Banks of North Carolina received 9 inches.
In 1861, at the start of the war, the state had a population of roughly 140,000, with half of that being enslaved African Americans. [63] In spite of the state's relatively small population, Florida did send several units to fight up north, most notably the 1st Florida, the 8th Florida and the 3rd Florida Infantry Regiment. [64]
1943 September 26: Florida's first oil well is drilled in Collier County by Humble Oil Company. [10] 1947: Everglades National Park dedicated. 1949 March 21: The first television station in Florida begins broadcasting, WTVJ. It is the 16th TV station to start broadcasting in the United States and is the oldest station still broadcasting in the ...