FAQ

The Sustainable Development Summit was held from 25-27 September 2015 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Countries officially adopted the historic new agenda, entitled “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” which was agreed upon by the 193 Member States of the United Nations, and includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

What are the 17 SDGs?

GOAL 1: No Poverty

GOAL 2: Zero Hunger

GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being

GOAL 4: Quality Education

GOAL 5: Gender Equality

GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

GOAL 10: Reduced Inequalities

GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

GOAL 13: Climate Action

GOAL 14: Life Below Water

GOAL 15: Life on Land

GOAL 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

GOAL 17: Partnerships for the Goals

For details, refer to the official UN SDG booklet:

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf

Getting SDG-linked projects off the ground ensures an organisation’s contribution is future-proofed for sustainability. More record-breaking means sustainability improves around the world!

Record breaking should focus on one SDG. If there is more than one SDG that is linked to a record, please submit a separate application for each.

Please see the Application Process page.

Please fill out the Online Registration.

Please see the Certificate Specification page.

SDG World Records recognises records which are the best in the world. We do not verify national/country-specific achievements.

Please see the Record Criteria page.

• Discontinued titles with SDG

• Record criteria not met

• Research

• Inappropriate/offensive

Please see the Record Criteria page

SDG World Records aims to provide organisations the opportunity to create more sustainability/social projects. SocietyNext Foundation collaborates with other SDG-linked social funders to support NGOs/NPOs/social enterprises at different stages around the world.

Please see the Funding Support page

The sponsor (either individuals or organisations) and organiser (must be organisations) co-hold a particular record title. They are called the Record Holder. Participants can apply for a participation certificate; they are called a Record Participant.

Please see the Roles page

If you would like an official SDG World Records adjudicator to attend your record attempt and provide on the spot verification, you may be interested in the Engagement Module service.

Please see the Pricing page

The record application procedure has two stages. The first stage objective is to ensure your idea can convert into an SDG World Record. This is free of charge.

Please see the Application Process page

If there is more than one organiser or sponsor, SDG World Records can issue a certificate for each sponsor/organiser with their own name. Each certificate will be charged separately.

If there are many organisers, the primary organiser or “Organised by different Parties” will appear on the organiser’s certificate.

If there are many sponsors, the primary sponsor or “Sponsored by different Parties” will appear on the sponsor’s certificate.

Please see the Pricing page

Registered organization who are qualified NGO/NPO will enjoy community rate of application fee.

Individuals can be sponsors but only organisations can fill the organiser role required to apply for an SDG World Record. If you have a good idea to contribute to a sustainable future, we encourage you to collaborate with people to bring more sustainability/social projects to life faster.

Yes. Register your company as a registered organisation on the Regiration page, and then fill your company name into the sponsor field when submitting your record application. If additional support needs, please email to sponsor@sdg.do.

Certificates are shipped via trackable courier service. This depends on the shipping method selected on your checkout page. Please allow 1-3 weeks from receipt of your certificate for delivery.

Please purchase additional certificates via record@sdg.do. The purchase order will be verified by the holder’s registered email. The cost of additional certificates and shipping will be charged to the buyer.

You can order your own participation certificate via order@sdg.do if your name is shown on the participant section of the eCert page.

The participant list is submitted by the organiser. Please contact your organiser and ask them to upload your name.

SDG World Records have a certificate specification and record criteria that is adhered to when creating texts for certificates. The record in SDG World Records system is immutable. Please proof-read carefully, as a certificate’s contents will not be amended after it is issued.

It depends on the type of application you opt for, please see the Application Process.

To speed up the application process, SDG World Records are unable to respond to any postal correspondence.

All postal correspondence sent to SDG World Records will be securely disposed of upon receipt, so please do not send any postal correspondence.

If your enquiry has not been answered by our FAQs, please contact us via email faq@sdg.do.

If you have additional queries, please email them to sdgwr@societynext.org.

Unusally four months from initiative application to record-breaking day

An additional charges would be incurred for the late submission (less than 2 months)