Unit - 2.5 Sustainable Development Goals
Unit - 2.5 Sustainable Development Goals
Unit - 2.5 Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations aim to achieve
decent lives for all people on a healthy planet by 2030.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all United Nations
Member States in 2015. It lays out a blueprint for people and the planet to live in peace
and prosperity now and in the future. The agenda calls for urgent action by all the
member countries to achieve the following 17 goals (with 169 targets and 304
indicators) by 2030:
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1. No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms and dimensions.
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2. Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote
sustainable agriculture.
3. Good Health & Well Being: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all
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4. Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
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6. Clean Water & Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all.
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7. Affordable & Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and
modern energy for all.
8. Decent Work & Economic Growth: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: Built resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive
and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.
10. Reduce Inequalities: Reduce inequalities within and among countries.
11. Sustainable Cities & Communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable.
12. Responsible Consumption & Production: Ensure sustainable consumption and
production pattern
13. Climate Action: Take urgent actions to combat climate change and its impact.
14. Life Below Water: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources.
15. Life on Land: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,
sustainably managed forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land
degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
16. Peace, Justice & Stronger Institutions: 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. Partnerships for the Goals: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the
global partnership for sustainable development.
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