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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)

The United Nations established 17 Sustainable Development Goals to address global challenges including those related to poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, and more. The goals aim to create a more sustainable and equitable future for all people by 2030. They cover issues like ensuring access to water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, decent work, reducing inequality, sustainable consumption and production, and protecting life below water and on land. Achieving the goals requires global cooperation and action by all countries and stakeholders to end poverty and fight inequality and injustice around the world.

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)

The United Nations established 17 Sustainable Development Goals to address global challenges including those related to poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, and more. The goals aim to create a more sustainable and equitable future for all people by 2030. They cover issues like ensuring access to water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, decent work, reducing inequality, sustainable consumption and production, and protecting life below water and on land. Achieving the goals requires global cooperation and action by all countries and stakeholders to end poverty and fight inequality and injustice around the world.

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Sustainable Development Goals

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS(SDGs)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - also known as the Global Goals for Sustainable Development - are a collection of 17
global goals set by the United Nations. Below we have give the details about 17 global goals and their target.

Goals Objective Description Target

In 2013, an estimated 385 million children lived on less than US$1.90


per day. Still, these figures are unreliable due to huge gaps in data on the
By 2030, eradicate extreme
status of children worldwide. On average, 97 percent of countries have
Goal -1 No Poverty poverty for all people
insufficient data to determine the state of impoverished children and
everywhere.
make projections towards SDG Goal 1, and 63 percent of countries have
no data on child poverty at all.

Three pathways to achieve this were identified: 1) agriculture-led; 2) End hunger, achieve food
Goal -2 Zero Hunger social protection- and nutrition intervention-led; or 3) a combination of security and improved
both of these approaches. nutrition by 2030.
Goal 3 also aims to reduce maternal mortality to less than 70 deaths per
Ensure healthy lives and
Good Health 100,000 live births. Though the maternal mortality ratio declined by 37
Goal -3 promote well-being for all
and Well-being percent between 2000 and 2015, there were approximately 303,000
at all ages by 2030.
maternal deaths worldwide in 2015, most from preventable causes.

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Ensure that all girls and


103 million youth worldwide still lack basic literacy skills, and more than
boys complete free,
Quality 60% of those are women. More than half of children failed to meet
Goal -4 equitable and quality
Education minimum math proficiency standards at the end of primary school in 1 in
primary and secondary
4 countries, and at the lower secondary level in 1 in 3 countries.
education by 2030.

A record 143 countries guaranteed equality between men and women in


To achieve gender equality
their Constitutions as of 2014. However, another 52 had not taken this
Goal -5 Gender Equality and empower all women
step. In many nations, gender discrimination is still woven into the fabric
and girls.
of legal systems and social norms.

Ensure availability and


The first three targets relate to drinking water supply and sanitation.
Clean Water sustainable management of
Goal -6 Worldwide, 6 out of 10 people lack safely managed sanitation services
and Sanitation water and sanitation for all
and 3 out of 10 lack safely managed water services.
by 2030.

Ensure access to
Affordable and As of 2017, only 57% of the global population relies primarily on clean affordable, reliable,
Goal -7
Clean Energy fuels and technology, falling short of the 95% target. sustainable and modern
energy for all by 2030.
Decent Work By 2020 the target is to reduce youth unemployment and operationalize a Promote sustained,
Goal -8 and Economic global strategy for youth employment. Implementing the Global Jobs inclusive and sustainable
Growth Pact of the International Labour Organization is also mentioned. economic growth.

Build resilient
Industry, Mobile-cellular signal coverage has improved a great deal. In previously infrastructure, promote
Goal -9 Innovation and "unconnected" areas of the globe, 85% of people live in covered areas. inclusive and sustainable
Infrastructure Planet-wide, 95% of the population is covered. industrialization and foster
innovation by 2030.

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One target is to reduce the cost of exporting goods from least developed
Reduce inequality within
Reduced countries. "Duty-free treatment" has expanded. As of 2015, 65% of
Goal -10 and among countries by
Inequality products coming from the least developed countries were duty-free, as
2030.
compared to 41% in 2005.

Between 2000 and 2014, the proportion fell from 39% to 30%. However,
Sustainable the absolute number of people living in slums went from 792 million in Make cities and human
Goal -11 Cities and 2000 to an estimated 880 million in 2014. Movement from rural to urban settlements inclusive, safe,
Communities areas has accelerated as the population has grown and better housing resilient and sustainable.
alternatives are available.

Responsible Ensure sustainable


Using eco-friendly production methods and reducing the amount of waste
Goal -12 Consumption consumption and
we generate are targets of Goal 12.
and Production production patterns.
In May 2015, a report concluded that only a very ambitious climate deal
Take urgent action to
in Paris in 2015 could enable countries to reach the sustainable
Goal -13 Climate Action combat climate change and
development goals and targets. The report also states that tackling climate
its impacts.
change will only be possible if the SDGs are met.

Improving the oceans contributes to poverty reduction as it gives low- Conserve and sustainably
Life Below income families a source of income and healthy food. Keeping beaches use the oceans, seas and
Goal -14
Water and ocean water clean in less developed countries can attract tourism, as marine resources for
stated in Goal 8, and reduce poverty by providing more employment. sustainable development.

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Protect, restore and


This goal articulates targets for preserving biodiversity of forest, desert
promote sustainable use of
and mountain eco-systems, as a percentage of total land mass. Achieving
Goal -15 Life on Land terrestrial ecosystems,
a "land degradation-neutral world" can be reached by restoring degraded
combat desertification and
forests and land lost to drought and flood.
halt biodiversity loss.

By 2017, the UN could report progress on detecting victims of


Promote peaceful and
trafficking. More women and girls than men and boys were victimized,
Peace and inclusive societies for
yet the share of women and girls has slowly declined. In 2004, 84% of
Goal -16 Justice Strong sustainable development;
victims were females and by 2014 that number had dropped to 71%.
Institutions provide access to justice
Sexual exploitation numbers have declined but forced labor has
for all.
increased.

Strengthen the means of


Developing multi-stakeholder partnerships to share knowledge, expertise,
implementation and
Partnerships to technology and financial support is seen as critical to overall success of
Goal -17 revitalize the global
achieve the Goal the SDGs. Public-private partnerships that involve civil societies are
partnership for sustainable
specifically mentioned.
development.

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