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[[File:1. no poverty.png|200px|thumb|right|Figure 1. The 1st Sustainable Development Goal.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sustainable_Development_Goal_1.png</ref>]]

<onlyinclude>'''No Poverty''' is the 1st of 17 [[Sustainable Development Goals]] set by the United Nations. The No Poverty Goal aims to end all forms of poverty by 2030<ref name="main"> United Nations Development Programme, "Goal 1: No Poverty,"''United Nations Development Programme''.[Online]. Available: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-1-no-poverty.html. [Accessed March 16, 2018]</ref> through increasing access to basic services and [[resource]]s, implementing programmes and policies, focusing on vulnerable populations, and helping communities struck by disasters caused by conflicts or extreme [[climate]] events.<ref name="tar"> United Nations Development Programme, "Goal 1 Targets,"''United Nations Development Programme''.[Online]. Available: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-1-no-poverty/targets/. [Accessed March 16, 2018]</ref></onlyinclude>

[[Climate change]] and [[energy]] play significant roles in the efforts to reduce poverty. Increasing climate change is impeding efforts to reduce poverty, and could push 100 million people in vulnerable populations into poverty by 2030. The impacts of climate change, including increasing temperatures, forest fires, droughts, floods, and more frequent and intense natural disasters and [[extreme weather events]]<ref name="nasa"> NASA, "The Consequences of Climate Change," ''Global Climate Change'' May 8, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/. [Accessed: May 11, 2018].</ref> can hurt the well-being and health of populations, destroy property, shelters, and sources of income, food, and [[water]]. Climate change impacts increase the difficulty of growing food, leading to lower food production, leaving more people hungry.<ref name="worldbank"> The World Bank, "Climate Change," ''The World bank'', April 6, 2018. [Online]. Available: http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatechange/overview. [Accessed: May 11, 2018].</ref>

Access to energy and sustainable energy connections can reduce poverty by creating more jobs, increasing [[food security]], boosting businesses, agriculture, and industry, and saving time for those who need to collect [[fuel]] sources currently. In parts of the world with limited [[energy access]], women in particular spend a lot of time gathering [[biomass]] fuel and cooking and this time and amount of [[air pollution]] can be reduced by implementing good energy connections.<ref name="iea"> International Energy Agency, "Energy Access Outlook 2017," ''International Energy Agency'', Oct. 19, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.iea.org/access2017/. [Accessed: May 11, 2018].</ref> Increasing the vulnerable population's access to energy will reduce poverty and improve their [[quality of life]]. 

Below is an animation from Gapminder displaying the number of people by income over time, from 1800 to 2015. Pink represents Asia and Australia, green represents North and South America, and yellow represents Europe.<ref name="gm"> Gapminder, "Number of People by Income," ''Gapminder''. [Online]. Available: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#_state_time_value=2015;;&data_/_lastModified:1526067676336&lastModified:1526067676336;&chart-type=mountain. [Accessed: May 11, 2018].</ref>

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==For further reading== 
'''Next SDG:''' [[SDG 2 Zero Hunger]] 

'''Previous SDG:''' [[SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals]]

'''SDG main page:''' [[Sustainable Development Goals]] 

'''List of Targets:''' [http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-1-no-poverty/targets/ Goal 1 Targets]

[[SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being]]

[[SDG 4 Quality Education]] 

[[SDG 5 Gender Equality]] 

[[SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation]] 

[[SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy]] 

[[SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth]]

[[SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities]]

[http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-1-no-poverty.html The United Nations Development Programme website on No Poverty]

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