UN SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

• The following are the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
• Each goal has a number of targets to be achieved.
• Progress is measured using indicators.

SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

• By 2030, ensure everyone has access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums.
• By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety by expanding public transport, with special attention to vulnerable groups.
• By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and increase capacity for participatory, integrated, and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries.
• Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world's cultural and natural heritage.
• By 2030, significantly reduce deaths and the number of people affected by disasters, including water-related disasters, and decrease direct economic losses relative to global GDP, focusing on protecting the poor and vulnerable.
• By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management.
• By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive, accessible, green, and public spaces, particularly for women, children, older persons, and persons with disabilities.
• Support positive economic, social, and environmental links between urban, peri-urban, and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning.
• By 2020, increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and resilience to disasters. Implement holistic disaster risk management at all levels, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
• Support least developed countries, through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings using local materials.

SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

• Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, with all countries taking action, developed countries taking the lead, and considering the development and capabilities of developing countries.
• By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
• By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.
• By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, according to international frameworks. Reduce their release to air, water, and soil to minimize adverse impacts on health and the environment.
• By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse.
• Encourage companies, especially large and transnational ones, to adopt sustainable practices and integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.
• Promote sustainable public procurement practices, in accordance with national policies and priorities.
• By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
• Support developing countries in strengthening their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable consumption and production patterns.
• Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
• Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions which includes restructuring taxation and phasing out harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts. Account for the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing impacts on the poor and affected communities.

SDG 13: Climate Action

• Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
• Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning.
• Improve education, awareness-raising, and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction, and early warning.
• Developed countries must implement their commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by mobilizing a goal of $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries. Operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible.
• Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth, and local and marginalized communities.

SDG 14: Life Below Water

• By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, especially from land-based activities like marine debris and nutrient pollution.
• By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, strengthen their resilience, and take action for their restoration to achieve healthy and productive oceans.
• Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.
• By 2020, regulate harvesting, end overfishing, illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and destructive fishing practices. Implement science-based management plans to restore fish stocks to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield, based on their biological characteristics.
• By 2020, conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law, based on the best available scientific information.
• By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing and eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Refrain from introducing new such subsidies, with appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries as part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation.
• By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism.
• Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity, and transfer marine technology (following Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines) to improve ocean health and enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, especially small island developing States and least developed countries.
• Provide small-scale artisanal fishers access to marine resources and markets.
• Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

SDG 15: Life On Land

• By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, including forests, wetlands, mountains, and drylands, following international agreements.
• By 2020, promote sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests, and increase afforestation and reforestation globally.
• By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and floods, and strive for a land degradation-neutral world.
• By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, to enhance their capacity to provide benefits essential for sustainable development.
• Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt biodiversity loss, and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.
• Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed.
• Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected flora and fauna species and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products.
• By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems. Control or eradicate the priority species.
• By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies, and accounts.
• Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems.
• Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation.
• Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.

SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

• Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.
• End abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and all forms of violence against and torture of children.
• Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all.
• By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets, and combat all forms of organized crime.
• Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms.
• Develop effective, accountable, and transparent institutions at all levels.
• Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory, and representative decision-making at all levels.
• Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.
• By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.
• Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements.
• Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, particularly in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.
• Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

• Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.
• Developed countries should fully implement their official development assistance (ODA) commitments, including the target of 0.7% of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15-0.20% of ODA/GNI to least developed countries. ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20% of ODA/GNI to least developed countries.
• Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.
• Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief, and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress.
• Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries.
• Enhance North-South, South-South, and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology, and innovation. Enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, particularly at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism.
• Promote the development, transfer, dissemination, and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.
• Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology, and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, particularly information and communications technology.
• Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South, and triangular cooperation.
• Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory, and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda.
• Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, with a view to doubling the least developed countries' share of global exports by 2020.
• Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access.
• Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence.
• Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development.
• Respect each country's policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
• Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology, and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, particularly developing countries.
• Encourage and promote effective public, public-private, and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.
• By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely, and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location, and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.
• By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries.