THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development
THE 17 GOALS
169
Targets
4111
Events
1381
Publications
8594
Actions
Goal 1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Targets
155
Events
51
Publications
1573
Actions
Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Targets
136
Events
18
Publications
1484
Actions
Goal 3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
13
Targets
78
Events
50
Publications
1368
Actions
Goal 4
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
10
Targets
84
Events
12
Publications
1972
Actions
Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Targets
116
Events
49
Publications
1857
Actions
Goal 6
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Targets
317
Events
37
Publications
1926
Actions
Goal 7
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Targets
96
Events
46
Publications
1101
Actions
Goal 8
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
12
Targets
141
Events
51
Publications
2141
Actions
Goal 9
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
Targets
137
Events
18
Publications
1167
Actions
10
Goal 10
Reduce inequality within and among countries.
10
Targets
110
Events
15
Publications
1082
Actions
11
Goal 11
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
10
Targets
149
Events
24
Publications
1338
Actions
12
Goal 12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
11
Targets
68
Events
19
Publications
1853
Actions
13
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Targets
93
Events
40
Publications
2444
Actions
14
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
10
Targets
150
Events
44
Publications
3373
Actions
15
Goal 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.
12
Targets
62
Events
35
Publications
1433
Actions
16
Goal 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.
12
Targets
86
Events
15
Publications
1129
Actions
17
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
19
Targets
374
Events
84
Publications
2427
Actions
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History
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
In June 1992, at the
Earth Summit
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted
Agenda 21
, a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.
Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at the
Millennium Summit
in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York. The Summit led to the elaboration of eight
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at the
World Summit on Sustainable Development
in South Africa in 2002, reaffirmed the global community's commitments to poverty eradication and the environment, and built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration by including more emphasis on multilateral partnerships.
At the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document
"The Future We Want"
in which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs and to establish the
UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
. The Rio +20 outcome also contained other measures for implementing sustainable development, including mandates for future programmes of work in development financing, small island developing states and more.
In 2013, the General Assembly set up a 30-member
Open Working Group
to develop a proposal on the SDGs.
In January 2015, the General Assembly began the negotiation process on the
post-2015 development agenda
. The process culminated in the subsequent adoption of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
, with
17 SDGs
at its core, at the
UN Sustainable Development Summit
in September 2015.
2015 was a landmark year for multilateralism and international policy shaping, with the adoption of several major agreements:
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
(March 2015)
Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development
(July 2015)
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the
UN Sustainable Development Summit
in New York in September 2015.
Paris Agreement on Climate Change
(December 2015)
Now, the annual
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.
Today, the
Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)
in the United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
provides substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their related thematic issues, including
water
energy
climate
oceans
urbanization
transport
science and technology
, the
Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)
partnerships
and
Small Island Developing States
. DSDG plays a key role in the evaluation of UN systemwide implementation of the 2030 Agenda and on advocacy and outreach activities relating to the SDGs. In order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement.
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Implementation Progress
Every year, the UN Secretary General presents an annual SDG Progress report, which is developed in cooperation with the UN System, and based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national statistical systems and information collected at the regional level.
Please, check below information about the SDG Progress Report:
SDG Progress Report (2025)
SDG Progress Report (2024)
SDG Progress Report (2023)
SDG Progress Report (2022)
SDG Progress Report (2021)
SDG Progress Report (2020)
SDG Progress Report (2019)
SDG Progress Report (2018)
SDG Progress Report (2017)
SDG Progress Report (2016)
Please, check here for information about SDG indicators and reports:
Additionally, the
Global Sustainable Development Report
is produced once every four years to inform the quadrennial SDG review deliberations at the General Assembly. It is written by an Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the Secretary-General.
Global Sustainable Development Report (2019)
Global Sustainable Development Report (2023)
SDGs Icons. Downloads and guidelines.
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