Matt Noyes is a Public Affairs Intern at the United Nations Foundation. He is currently studying English at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. In the past, Matt has lived in Italy, Spain, and Panama.
Why the #globalgoals matter to me:
While I was growing up, I only ever thought of climate change as some vague, far away problem that I didn’t need to worry about. And then, about 5 years ago I saw the (now-viral) photo of a polar bear and her cub huddled on a rapidly melting iceberg in the arctic. Ever since I saw that picture, I began to realize that climate change wasn’t someone else’s problem and it wasn’t far away at all: it’s happening now, and we’re living in it. So, while I see all the global goals as equally important causes that we need to rally behind, goals 7, 13, 14, and 15 definitely resonate with me the most. I am that annoying friend who will nag you to turn your lights off, that will tell you to walk instead of drive if the destination isn’t far, and who will push for more recycling bins around my college campus because there are way too few of them. I want the global goals to succeed so that by 2030, the world will be the kind of place that I know it can be.
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