Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Agenda

• The Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet, and prosperity, aiming to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom.
• Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 Targets

• The Goals and targets demonstrate the scale and ambition of the new universal Agenda.
• They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve.
• The Goals and targets are integrated and indivisible, balancing the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental.

People

• The Agenda aims to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and ensure that all human beings can fulfill their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.

Planet

• The Agenda seeks to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources, and taking urgent action on climate change.

Prosperity

• The Agenda aims to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives, and that economic, social, and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.

Peace

• The Agenda seeks to foster peaceful, just, and inclusive societies, which are free from fear and violence, recognizing that there can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.

Partnership

• The Agenda aims to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focusing on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders, and all people.

Declaration

• The Heads of State and Government and High Representatives adopted the Sustainable Development Goals on September 25-27, 2015, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
• The Agenda is a comprehensive, far-reaching, and people-centered set of universal and transformative Goals and targets, aiming to be fully implemented by 2030.

A plan of action for people, planet, and prosperity, focusing on eradicating poverty and achieving universal peace.