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In 2000, the United Nations signed for the first time a common agenda for a more social, healthy and just global environment. Yet, the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were too focused on the developing and emerging countries and did not consider the industrial countries' share in the process, too- leaving for example the biggest carbon footprint. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) go further. In the SGDs, the goals target each and every citizen, in order to guarantee a dignified life for everyone. Sustainable development “is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their needs” (Brundtland Report);

it includes an economic, a socio-cultural and an ecological objective.

Reducing noise pollution would contribute to all three of these goals, as a high level of constant

noise, makes a person stressed (less efficient at work and tired at home), which leads us directly

to health problems, as people are, for example, more likely to lose their hearing, and lastly, it also

implies ecological problems, as a noisy environment unbalances the nature’s ecosystem.

So this blog aims at making people aware of the real problem noise pollution entails, what

impact it has, and what different solutions there are at the disposition of every citizen.