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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)

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The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were designed to help developing countries meet their basic needs. The SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals are setting a much broader agenda encompassing global priorities that are universally applicable, and incorporating issues that previously remained outside traditional development thinking, such as the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies and the transition to sustainable patterns of consumption and production. (Building a Sustainable Future Requires Leadership from State and Citizen by Jimena Leiva-Roesch, Youssef Mahmoud, and Steve Nation, Tuesday September 23, 2014.

Here is a short summary of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals suggested for the next 15 years.


​Goal 1.  End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2.  End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 3.  Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 4.  Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all

Goal 5.  Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6.  Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 7.  Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all

Goal 8.  Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work

Goal 9.  Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts* (*Acknowledge that the UNFCCC is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change)

Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

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

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

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

In the following posts we will look at these goals, and what they mean for each of us, and how we as ordinary people can contribute. 


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