The badge program, part of the island-wide Guam Green Growth initiative facilitated by the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability, recognizes and rewards participation from businesses, organizations, educational institutions, and community groups in developing and creating sustainable practices that align with the G3 Action Framework and the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr. Austin Shelton, director of the UOG Center for Island Sustainability director, said these are the first among the island's mayors to commit to the badge program. The badge program will be rolled out over five years, starting with badges for poverty and hunger and gradually advancing through all 17 SDGs. 

“We are thankful to the mayors who have stepped up and shared the initiatives that you are doing,” Shelton said.

Actions that could make an organization or mayor’s office achieve a badge include assisting with food commodity distribution or supporting backyard farming. 

"The G3 Badge Program is important because achieving goals to end poverty and hunger will hopefully produce healthy and sustainable communities,” said MCOG President and Mayor of Piti Jesse Alig. “The mayors and vice mayors continue to work collaboratively with the Conservation Corps to educate and execute projects that support the Sustainable Development Goals.”
  
Alana Chargualaf, G3 Conservation Corps member, said the U.N. SDGs offer a holistic approach to bringing the island to where it needs to be – “not just environmentally, but through education,” she said, “... how we interact with each other and the inafa'maolek and harmony that we always talk about and we try to promote. We can carry those out through our 17 Sustainable Development Goals.”