What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals supported by Delhi Greens

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and was agreed upon by consensus at the informal meeting of the UN plenary on 2 August 2015. The outcome document of the aforementioned informal meeting is entitled, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and sets aside 17 Sustainable Development Goals which will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet.

Prior to this – on 29th December 2014 – the United Nations – through its resolution 69/244 – decided that the United Nations Summit for the Adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015 in New York, and convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations. This Summit is now ongoing and world leaders, including the Prime Minster of India Shri Narendra Modi are participating in this critically important global summit.

The Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) will replace the Millennium Development Goals (2010-2015) and will also try to achieve the targets set by the MDGs that may not have been achieved thus far. The SDGs are aimed at resolving the key social and environmental challenges being faced by the Planet today and will prepare the world to take bold steps and initiatives in ensuring a clean, green and healthy environment for the present and all future generations.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are listed below. The Delhi Greens organisation supports these 17 SDGs and will work with all stakeholders to ensure that each of these goals are realized, in the best interest of Delhi, India and the world.

Sustainable Development Goals

  1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

  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

  4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

  5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

  6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

  7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

  8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

  9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

  10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

  11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

  12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

  13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

  14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

  15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

  16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

  17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

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