HLPF this year theme is "Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions” which will address innovations and resilient measures for accelerating progress towards the SDGs. Building an inclusive, effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda with SDGs 1, 2, 13, 16, and 17 require integrated, interlinked nature of SDGs with quality education. Role of Science, Technology, Innovation through learning with games and hands-on activities is very important, and our work showed that students, youth understand, take action for climate change, SDGs, and Lifestyle for Sustainable Future. We discuss actions for advancing SDGs, building sustainability concepts for Healthy Planet.
HaritaDhara Research Development and Education Foundation (HRDEF) is working on sustainable lifestyle, educational Games for Learning Sustainability Concepts, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by Youth and Community for couple of years and presented our work at the TECH 2017, 2018 UNESCO MGIEP Global conference, UNESCO ESD 2021, and UN HLPF side event 2021, 2022, 2023. We designed, developed games, hands-on activities for understanding difficult concepts related to sustainable development in an interactive way. We discuss use of games for students and youth in different settings for advancing SDGs, building sustainability concepts. HRDEF inculcate, motivates students for science, technology, engineering, arts and design, mathematics (STEAM) for 21st Century Sustainable living through intelligent interactive learning systems. Apps on SDGs, COVID-19, hands-on activities, quiz, model making, projects and other creative forms of expressions increased people motivation towards science, SDGs, and sustainability.