5. MDGs and SDGs

• What are the MDGs?

  8 global targets set in the 2000 millennium summit, for a deadline of 2015
• What are the results in 2015 regarding extreme poverty?

  Extreme poverty has halved, yet 1/8 people still go hungry
• What are the results in 2015 regarding maternal mortality?

  Although maternal mortality has fallen by 45%, only 1/2 of women in developing nations gets prenatal care
• What are the results in 2015 regarding sanitation?

  Although 1/4 of the population got improved sanitation, there are still 2.5 billion people without basic sanitation
• What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

  Updated goals set in 2015
• Are we globally on track to reach the SDGs?

  No
• 30% of the sustainable development goals have stalled or reversed in progress
• Only 17% of the sustainable development goals are on target
• Why is there such little progress to achieving the SDGs?

  Partially due to COVID, the Russian war, etc…