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On 25 September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are to be achieved as far as possible by 2030. The vision is to ensure that all people in the world have a dignified life while at the same time protecting the natural foundations of life.

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All answers are correct. All people, states, cities and institutions should contribute to the implementation of the goals. The special thing is that everyone is responsible: Politicians, people in business and science - every single one of us! Agenda 2030 says that we are all responsible for what happens on earth and how we shape our future.

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Right. Extreme poverty means living on less than $1.90 a day.

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Right. Here in Germany, a family of four is considered poor if it has less money per day than 78 €, which corresponds to a monthly household income of 2380 €.

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"All answers are correct: via ""BoKi - Bonner Kinder spielen"" you can donate toys. Boxes are available e.g. in the Bonn City Library. In the Oxfam Shop Bonn, your clothes and toys are resold at a good price. The proceeds of the sales go to projects that help very poor people in less developed countries. Robin Good is a project of the Protestant and Catholic Churches. Through donations they can help children to pay for warm winter jackets, school supplies or for example a swimming course."

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Unfortunately, right. There are still over 821 million people suffering from hunger. Unfortunately, the number of starving people has increased again in the last three years.

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Correct: Each and every German throws away an average of 55 kg of food per year. Worldwide, around 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year.

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Correct. With Bonn, 15 municipalities from all over Germany belong to the network of bio-cities, most of which are located in Southern Germany. Together, they are working to promote organic farming, processing and the demand for organic food with short transport distances and regional added value.

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Correct. There has been significant progress. From 1990 to 2019, the number of deaths of children under five years of age decreased by 59% worldwide.

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Because in 2019 the threshold value for the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2) of 40 µg/m³ (annual average value) was not complied with throughout the city of Bonn, the Clean Air Plan provides for a package of measures which includes the establishment of mobility hubs that optimally link all means of transport such as public transport stops with, among other things, e-charging stations with parking spaces for cars, car-sharing parking spaces, e-scooter-sharing parking spaces, a bike parking garage, an e-bike charging station, and more. The mobility hubs are funded by the State of NRW as part of the "Low-Emission City Centre" programme. According to forecasts, 3,160 kg of nitrogen oxide can be reduced annually from 2025 onwards.

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The public health department of the City of Bonn offers free consultations as well as free and anonymous tests without appointment during open consultation hours.

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Smoking used to be allowed in restaurants in Bonn, but it has been prohibited since July 2008. The smoking ban in restaurants was issued for the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia. In NRW as well as in Bavaria and Saarland, the regulation is especially strict. Other federal states allow for more exceptions.

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Right. That’s about one out of six children worldwide - about 16% of all children in total.

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Correct! So far the city is on a good path. The supply of slots for the open all-day program is increasing steadily and the planned capacity increase is being met so far.

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Right. Accompanied by the comic adventures of Bonn’s lion mascot BONNI and his polar bear friend BO, the book explains what the climate, climate change and carbon oxide (CO2) are all about. BONNI and Bo motivate the students to count all the light bulbs at home and to distinguish between normal and energy-saving lamps. Or to make sure that chargers of electrical appliances are removed from the socket after charging. By 2020, more than 14,000 third-graders in Bonn will have received their climate ambassador certificates. That’s really cool!

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Until the summer of 2020, Bonn only had one female mayor: Bärbel Dieckmann. However, she was in office for three consecutive terms, from 1994 to 2009. Each term of office of a mayor lasts five years.

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Right, unfortunately. And about 785 million people - one in ten in the world - still have no safe source of water within a 30-minute walk. 

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Right. 30% of water consumption per person and day in Germany goes into flushing toilets, 53% into personal hygiene, 4% for food and drink, and 13% for other things.

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Right. In the region around Bonn, there is generally sufficient drinking water available. However, its provision is always associated with energy and materials consumption. Consumption of drinking water in Bonn decreased steadily from 2003 to 2014, but has been increasing again since 2015. One reason is the particularly warm summer of 2018. The City of Bonn's goal is to further reduce consumption of drinking water in Bonn. If the trend continues in the opposite direction, for example due to global warming, the city must focus more on water-saving technologies and education.

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Right. Gross electricity consumption is the sum of all domestic electricity generation (wind, hydropower, solar, coal, oil, natural gas and others), plus inbound electricity flows from abroad, but minus outbound electricity flows to other countries).

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With its high share of electricity from renewable energy sources, Bonn’s public utility is leading the way in the nationwide electricity mix.

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Correct. This area would be able to generate about 800,000 megawatt hours of electricity, which would cover about half of Bonn's total electricity consumption. By offering consulting services and its solar roof register, the city is trying to persuade more and more people in Bonn to actively use photovoltaic options.

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Correct, unfortunately. In 2014, almost 10% of the working population did not earn enough to meet their needs. In 2004 it was only just under five percent. This is due to the fact that unemployed people often take jobs with poor pay or minimum hours. So they work without earning enough to live on.

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Right. In 2017, an average of 1.09 companies per 1,000 companies were certified according to the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and ECOPROFIT. The ECOPROFIT programme is jointly run by the City of Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. A total of 53 companies have participated in the programme since 2008.

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The start-up team at the Bonn Economic Development Agency supports prospective self-employed people and start-ups through a wide range of consulting services. In addition, in the Bonn-Profits Innovation and Start-up Center (IGZ), the City of Bonn offers start-ups affordable office space in an attractive location on the B9 throughfare. Since the IGZ opened in 2011, more than 70 companies have taken advantage of this service.

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Right. Bonn scored extremely well in the area of administration. With its numerous activities involving citizens’ services, it even reached third place nationwide. And in the area of social participation – with offers like the citizens’ participation platform, the geo data portal and the open data platform – it ranked fourth place nationwide. Bitkom had included 81 major German cities in the ranking. Examples of measures already successfully implemented in the Smart City framework include the citizens’ services portal, the Kita-Net parents’ portal, citizens’ services terminals, online booking of tickets and courses, a parking app, a digital guidance system, and more.

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In 2018, 53.3 % of the socially insured employees in Bonn were considered highly qualified. Their share is growing continuously. The city's economic development agency supports Bonn’s expansion as a business location by means of science and business networks, and providing information for students about the diverse job market opportunities in the region.

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The refurbished combined heat and power plant Bonn Nord in Karlsstraße was commissioned in 2013. It represents a saving of up to 194,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year and uses household waste to generate energy. The heat released during incineration in the waste processing plant is converted into steam which is then piped to the neighbouring combined heat and power plant. There, the energy contained in Bonn's household waste is converted into electricity and district heating.

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Right! In Collage with Courage, young Bonn residents of different Muslim denominations get involved, for example, in environmental issues or better social interaction, against stereotyping and the reduction of Muslims to their religion alone. With the spectacular art action "Embrace me" or a Poetry Slam in the context of the Bonn SDG-Days the group has reached an interested public. “Collage with Courage” was founded in 2013 as part of the anti-discrimination work of the Municipal Integration Center.

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The area used for settlement and transportation increased only moderately, by 0.3% – less strongly than the population has grown. As a result, fewer square meters of settlement and transportation areas are being used per capita. This is a positive trend in relation to Bonn’s Sustainability Strategy. Its goal is to further reduce the per capita share of settlement and traffic areas in Bonn – by exploiting redensification potential, more efficient use of living space and mixed forms of construction in new construction projects.

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Right. Bonn is in a good position: about half of the city area is designated as protected areas. Protected areas are made up of nature reserves, such as natural landmarks and Nature 2000 areas as well as landscape conservation areas. This high share has remained almost constant since 2015. The absolute area of recreational space also developed positively in the period up to 2016, although the rising number of inhabitants means that there is computationally less green space available per capita. New green spaces must be developed and open spaces must be secured in the long term.

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Right. About 60% of the material from the old trams and buses is reused for the new ones

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Unfortunately, right. Of the money we spend in Germany on a bar of chocolate that is not fairly traded, only about 6% reaches the approximately 5.5 million cocoa farmers. This is why it is so important to stand up for fair trade, as the city of Bonn, for example, as a fair trade town, does.

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Correct. Bonn has been a "Fair Trade Town" since 2010. That means among other things: it has passed a council resolution according to which coffee and another Fair Trade product is used at the meetings of the committees, the council and in the mayor's office. Furthermore, a certain number of shops, restaurants, cafés, schools, associations and churches must offer Fair Trade products.

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"All answers are correct: Since 2016, the jackets and trousers of the municipal gardeners* have met all the requirements of socially responsible working conditions in production. The city council, for example, uses recycled towel or toilet paper, refillable soap/disinfectant dispensers. Only fair trade coffee is available in the Stadthaus canteen. In addition to ReCup cups it offers milk and sugar in refillable cans and buys its food such as salad, potatoes, asparagus or strawberries mainly from local farmers."

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Correct. The sale of fair products and talking about fair trade in at least two subjects is an absolute requirement for being recognized as a "Fair trade School". Likewise, every school must carry out school actions on fair trade. These can be different at every school. There are indeed Fair Trade Schools that produce a part of their own electricity or that start a Fair Trade promotion every Saturday, but each school can decide for itself.

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Right. With 60%less energy and 70% less water, significantly less climate-damaging CO2 is produced. The City of Bonn makes a good contribution when it comes to saving energy and water. For its exclusive use of recycled paper certified with the "Blue Angel" label, it has received the nationwide city competition Paper Atlas 2019 award for the ninth time in a row.

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Right. Via numerous measures, CO2 emissions in Bonn were reduced by a total of 25 percent between 1990 and 2016. In the transport sector, however, there is an overall upward trend. In 2016, traffic caused 41% of emissions in Bonn

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The competition is aimed at all fifth graders and was initiated by the city of Bonn and the rainforest foundation oroVerde because almost every fifth tree ends up in a paper mill.

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Plastic waste represents an ever increasing proportion of the waste found in the water of our oceans. In some parts of the world, 95% of the ocean waste is plastic. And there are huge swirls of waste in the sea.

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Plastic is not broken down, but has to be ground up by wind and waves over a long period of time. This takes up to 20 years for a plastic bag and up to 50 years for a plastic cup. PET plastic bottles last especially long, often being crushed after 450 years. This is why it makes sense to always consider buying something other than plastic bottles.

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Right. Bonn’s seven water bodies (section of a natural flowing or still water body) are evaluated every six years. According to a decision by the Council, through various measures their water quality is to be increased to 40% by 2027. Reasons for environmental sub-standard flowing waters include excessive nutrients from agriculture, construction works, river straightening and discharge of untreated or insufficiently treated wastewater.

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Plastic is not broken down, but has to be ground up by wind and waves over a long period of time. This takes up to 20 years for a plastic bag and up to 50 years for a plastic cup. PET plastic bottles last especially long, often being crushed after 450 years. This is why it makes sense to always consider buying something other than plastic bottles.

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The Munich Umweltinstitut defines the bee as the most important and useful animal for humans, as it is essential for the fertilization of plants. Some 70% of the world's most important crops depend on pollination by insects; in Europe as much as 84%. In 2009, in the journal Ecological Economics, scientists from France and Germany estimated of the value of the pollination performance of honey bees at €153 billion per year.

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With its meadow programme, the City of Bonn has been committed to increasing biological diversity since 1993. Today, there are meadows for bees, butterflies and other insects on approximately 63 hectares in the city area. Along paths and streets, species-rich perennial beds have been created, for example at the Windeck bunker and on the banks of the Rhine below the Beethovenhalle concert hall. In the Südfriedhof cemetery, 5,000 square meters of unused lawns were converted into flowering areas. Species-rich meadows are also to be created on unused areas in other cemeteries in Bonn.

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Since 1999, Bonn’s city forest has been certified according to the strict criteria of the Naturlandverband for environmental and sustainable management and is thus officially natural forest and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. For example, the staff at Bonn's city forest management department refrain from clearing and the use of pesticides and fertilizers.

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Most refugees are in flight in their own country. About 270 million people, approximately 3.5% of the total population, are in flight outside their own country. Armed conflicts, violence, hunger (which is sometimes deliberately used as a weapon) and poverty are the main causes of flight.

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Richtig. Bonn ist Mitgliedsstadt bei „Mayors for Peace“ (Bürgermeister für den Frieden).

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Right. Bonn is a member city of Mayors for Peace. Many member cities of this peace network plant the trees locally.

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The 0.7% target adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1970 was reaffirmed by the EU for its member states in 2005. So far, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg and Belgium have achieved it. Germany reached the 0.7% target for the first time in 2016, partly because expenditures for refugees in Germany were also included.

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Bonn has six long-standing municipal project partnerships, namely with Bukhara in Uzbekistan, Chengdu in the PR China, Ulan Bator in Mongolia, Minsk in Belarus, Cape Coast in Ghana (West Africa) and La Paz in Bolivia. It also maintains a municipal partnership with Ramallah in Palestine (West Bank) and friendly relations with the city of Tel Aviv-Jafo in Israel.

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Correct. Bonn has maintained a municipal project partnership with the coastal city of Cape Coast in Ghana since 2008. At the beginning of the project, the Fosu Lagoon in Cape Coast was one of the most heavily polluted waters in Ghana. Together, the City of Bonn and the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly have implemented projects that have contributed to improving the water quality of the Fosu Lagoon - from the establishment of an environmental education center to jointly developed theater plays that address environmental protection, waste management, and sustainability.

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Bonn's twin city, Cape Coast, is located in Africa, more precisely in Ghana on the west coast of Africa. Bonn and Cape Coast have had a partnership since 2008.