The Goals

The SDGs are part of a breakthrough global agreement called the 2030 Agenda, adopted at the United Nations on Sept 25, 2015. Its purpose: to transform the world. Here are the 17 goals.

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: An Overview

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: An Overview
#1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

#1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
#2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

#2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
#3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

#3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
#4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning

#4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
#5: Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls

#5: Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls
#6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

#6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
#7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

#7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
#8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all

#8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
#9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

#9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
#10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

#10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
#11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

#11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
#12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

#12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
#13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

#13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
#14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

#14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
#15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

#15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
#16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

#16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
#17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

#17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development