News 22 Sep, 2022 West celebrates Sustainable Development Goals Day 2022 At a historic United Nations (UN) summit held in New York in September 2015, 193 Member States agreeing on 17 global goals, known as the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), and setting out an ambitious agenda for prosperity of our planet and its people by 2030.  The summit noted a call to action upon governments, the private sector and individuals to collaborate in achieving these goals, aiming to promote economic growth, social inclusion, environmental sustainability and strengthen universal peace and freedom.  West has committed to seven of these goals and in celebration of seven years since their adoption of the SGDs by the UN, our offices around the world celebrated SDG Action Day which takes place annually on the 25 th of September. Celebrations included a fun activity throughout the day where employees had to locate ESG Committee members, each representing an SDG which West has adopted, be briefed on the purpose of such goal and how it relates to our work at West. For example regarding SDG14: Life Below water, West supports students and early career researches via a Seagoing Science Bursary run by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), (you can read more about this in our latest issue of Waypoints Magazine ) as well as the Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) and the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) to initiate and support the development of a Management Plan for the Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area (NIMPA)- Africa’s second largest marine reserve. At the end of the day we gathered for cupcakes and a quiz which revealed key SDG related facts. The seven SDGs adopted by West are: SDG3: Good Health and Wellbeing SDG5: Gender Equality SDG8: Decent work & Economic growth SDG13: Climate Action SDG14: Life Below Water SDG16: Peace, Justice & Strong institutions SDG17: Partnerships for the Goals. The initiative was well received by all, who showed a great deal of interest in