In 2020, migrants accounted for as much as 3.6% of the world's population, in 48 years the vertebrate population has fallen by 69%. Where does this information come from? From the UG lessons, of course! We invite you to watch new popular science lectures prepared in cooperation with SAUR Neptun Gdańsk.

The first one entitled 'Why do people migrate?' is conducted by dr Elżbieta Czapka from the Institute of Sociology at the UG. We will learn how the movement of millions of people between national borders affects the goals of sustainable development. The sociologist will refer in particular to Goal 10 - less inequality, Goal 13 - climate action and Goal 16 - peace justice and strong institutions.

Dr Dawid Weisbrodt, author of the second lecture, will talk more extensively about Agenda 2030, established by the UN in 2015. The lesson entitled 'Sustainable Development Goals in the context of efforts to address the contemporary environmental crisis' deals with humanity's progress and regress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The geographer from the Department of Quaternary Geomorphology and Geology explains, among other things, why 1950 can be called the beginning of a new epoch - the Anthropocene - and why it is difficult for us to take seriously problems whose consequences we will only see in a few or several decades.