- The 193-Member United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on twenty five September 2015 formally adopted the transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for sustainable Development along with a set of bold new global Goals, that are a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world.
- The 2030 Agenda and the international Goals were adopted during the United Nations sustainable Development Summit that is being organised at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
- The 2030 Agenda for sustainable Development is an agenda for people to end poverty in all its forms. It’s composed of seventeen goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over following fifteen years.
- While, the global Goals aim to build on the work of the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which in September 2000, rallied the world around a common 15-year agenda to tackle the indignity of poverty.
- The agenda conveys the urgency of climate action. it’s rooted in gender equality and respect for the rights of all. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world leaders and others to successfully implement the global Goals or Agenda thirty by launching a revitalised global Partnership for sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened international solidarity.
About 2030 Agenda for sustainable Development
- This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom.
- The seventeen sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets of the agenda demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to create on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these didn’t achieve.
- The goals and targets seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the authorization of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the 3 dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.
- The agenda is determined to finish poverty and hunger in all their forms and dimensions and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
- It aims to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change.
- It will ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
17 sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
- End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote long learning opportunities for all
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
- Ensure access to cheap, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and property industrialisation and foster innovation
- Reduce difference inside and among countries
- Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
- Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
- Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the worldwide partnership for sustainable development
The revitalized international Partnership
- The revitalized international Partnership will facilitate an intensive international engagement in support of implementation of all the goals and targets. it will bring together Governments, civil society, the private sector, the united nations system and other actors and mobilize all available resources.
- This Agenda, including its seventeen goals, can be met inside the framework of a revitalized international partnership for sustainable development, supported by the concrete policies and actions outlined within the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.
- The Addis Ababa Action Agenda supports complements and helps contextualize the 2030 Agenda’s means of implementation targets.
