SDG
SDG
DEFINITION
The Sustainable Development Goals are
the blueprint to achieve a better and more
sustainable future for all.
-UNITED
NATIONS
The Sustainable Development Goals or
Global Goals are a collection of
seventeen interlinked objectives designed
to serve as “shared blueprint for peace
and prosperity for people and the planet
now and into the future.”
GOAL 1- END POVERTY IN ALL ITS FORMS
EVERYWHERE
Globally the number of people living in extreme
poverty declined from 36 percent in 1990 to 10
percent in 2015. but the pace of change is
decelerating and the covid 19 crisis risk reversing
decades of progress in the fight against poverty.
CAPACITY BUILDING
Enhance international support for implementing
effective and targeted capacity building in developing
countries to support national plans.
ACHIEVEMENTS
• IN INDIA
India has made steady progress towards achieving the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals in areas of health, energy and
infrastructure as per the latest NITI Aayog’s SDG India index which
shows the strides taken by the country in social, economic and
environmental development over the past year.
Since 2019, India’s overall scare across SDG’s has gone up from
60 to 66 in 2021 due to nation wide environment in ‘clean water
and sanitation’ and ‘affordable and clean energy’.
In 2021 India ranked 117 among 192 nation.
India’s overall score across SDG’s improved by 6 point from 60 in
2019 to 66 in 2020-21.
Kerala achieved the highest overall score in the index with its
efforts to tackle hunger and to provide quality education to
students closely followed by Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Mizoram, Haryana and Uttarakhand are the top gainers in 2020-
21 in terms of improvement in score from 2019.
WORLDWIDE
Considerable progress has been made on the availability of
internationally comparable data on the SDG’s. the number of indicators
included in the global SDG database increased from 115 in 2016 to
around 160 in 2019 and 211 in 2021.
the highest scoring 5 countries are –
1. Finland - 86.51
2. Denmark - 85.63
3. Sweden -85.19
4. Norway - 82.35
5. Austria -82.32
CONCLUSION