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• Sustainable development goals aim to transform the world
• Sustainable development goals provide worldwide guidance for addressing the global challenges facing the international communities
• Sustainable development goals are called global goals
• The Sustainable Development Goals agenda was accepted by all members of the United Nations at the Rio De Janeiro Council Meet with an aim to promote a healthy and developed future of the planet and its people


  2012
• The Sustainable Development Goals were implemented after a successful fifteen-year plan of development called the Millennium Development Goals


  2015
• The Sustainable Development Goals are a universal goal adopted by the United Nations in 2015
• The Sustainable Development Goals are a call to action to end poverty and inequality, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy health, justice, and prosperity
• The United Nations, founded in 1945, is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purpose is to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations
• The Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform our world
• There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals

  • End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all stages
  • Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
  • Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Reduce inequalities within and among countries
  • Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
  • Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Take urgent actions to combat climate change and its impacts
  • Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
  • Protect, restore and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss
  • Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
• The Sustainable Development Goals aim to promote the kind of development that minimizes environmental problems
• The Sustainable Development Goals aim to meet the needs of the existing generation without compromising with the quality of the environment for future generations
• The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of seventeen pointer targets that all the countries which are members of the UN agreed to work upon for the better future of the country
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is an intergovernmental agreement formulated to act as a post-2015 Development agenda, its predecessor being Millennium Development Goals
• The Sustainable Development Goals consist of 17 goals with 169 targets and 304 indicators, as proposed by the United Nations General Assembly's Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030
• The Sustainable Development Goals agenda titled "Transforming Our World: the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development" was adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit
• The Sustainable Development Goals are the outcome of the Rio+20 conference (2012) held in Rio De Janeiro and are a non-binding document
• The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are as mentioned below

  • End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all stages
  • Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
  • Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Reduce inequalities within and among countries
  • Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
  • Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Take urgent actions to combat climate change and its impacts
  • Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
  • Protect, restore and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss
  • Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
• SDG 1: No Poverty
• SDG 1 aims to end poverty in all its forms everywhere
• SDG 1 aims to end poverty by

  • Implementing social protection systems
  • Ensuring equal rights and access to resources for all individuals
  • Achieving full and productive employment, ensuring decent work for everyone
  • Implementing policies to address the vulnerabilities of those in poverty
  • Promoting social, economic, and political inclusion of all, regardless of income
  • Enhancing the resilience of the poor and reducing their exposure to climate-related events
  • Providing access to basic services, including education and healthcare, for impoverished communities
  • Addressing the root causes of poverty by promoting sustainable development
  • Encouraging international cooperation and support to lift developing nations out of poverty
  • Monitoring and tracking progress towards poverty eradication through data collection and analysis
• SDG 2: Zero Hunger
• SDG 2 aims to end hunger
• Address the root causes of poverty

  Promote sustainable development
• Encourage international cooperation and support


  Lift developing nations out of poverty
• Monitor and track progress towards poverty eradication


  Data collection and analysis
• SDG 2: Zero Hunger

  • End hunger
  • Achieve food security and improved nutrition
  • Promote sustainable agriculture
  • Ensure access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food
  • End malnutrition
  • Double agricultural productivity and incomes
  • Maintain biodiversity and ecosystem health
  • Implement resilient agricultural practices
  • Eliminate trade restrictions
  • Ensure access for small-scale farmers
  • Support research and development of agricultural technologies
  • Prevent food waste and loss
• SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

  • Ensure universal access to quality healthcare services
  • Reduce maternal mortality
  • End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five
  • Combat infectious diseases
  • Strengthen health systems
  • Achieve universal health coverage
  • Reduce non-communicable diseases
  • Promote mental health
  • Strengthen health workforce
  • Support research and development of vaccines and medicines
• SDG 4: Quality Education

  • Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
  • Eliminate gender disparities
  • Ensure completion of primary and secondary education
  • Expand access to vocational and tertiary education
  • Eliminate disparities based on disability, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status
  • Acquire knowledge and skills for sustainable development
  • Build safe and inclusive educational facilities
  • Increase qualified teachers
  • Enhance education for sustainable development
  • Increase scholarships
• SDG 5: Gender Equality

  • End discrimination and violence
  • Eliminate harmful practices
  • Ensure equal opportunities in leadership
  • Eliminate gender-based violence
  • Provide equal access to education and healthcare
  • Ensure women's participation in the labor market
  • Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work
  • Promote equal access to resources and land
  • Adopt and strengthen policies for gender equality
  • Monitor progress through data collection
• SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation


  • Ensure universal access to safe drinking water
  • Achieve access to sanitation and hygiene
  • Improve water quality
  • Increase water-use efficiency
  • Protect and restore water-related ecosystems
  • Implement integrated water resource management
  • Support developing countries in water-related disaster risk reduction
  • Encourage local community participation
  • Provide infrastructure and technology for water and sanitation
  • Strengthen international cooperation
• Water-related disaster risk reduction and management

  1. Encourage local communities to participate in water resource management decisions

  2. Provide adequate infrastructure and technology for water and sanitation in developing countries

  3. Strengthen international cooperation to support developing countries in water and sanitation infrastructure development
• SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
• SDG 7 Aim


  • Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
• SDG 7


  1. Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services

  2. Increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

  3. Improve energy efficiency in all sectors, from transportation to industry

  4. Expand access to research and development of clean energy technologies

  5. Enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy technology

  6. Promote investment in clean energy infrastructure, particularly in developing countries

  7. Facilitate access to affordable and sustainable energy for all sectors of society

  8. Support developing countries in their efforts to transition to sustainable energy sources

  9. Implement policies and regulations that promote clean energy and phase out subsidies for fossil fuels

  10. Strengthen capacity building and awareness-raising for clean energy adoption
• SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
• SDG 8 Aim


  • Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all
• SDG 8


  1. Achieve full and productive employment for all, including women and young people

  2. Eradicate forced labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking

  3. End child labor in all its forms

  4. Eliminate discrimination in the workplace based on gender, ethnicity, or other factors

  5. Protect labor rights, including the right to organize and collective bargaining

  6. Promote safe and secure working environments for all workers

  7. Implement policies to achieve sustained, inclusive economic growth

  8. Encourage entrepreneurship and innovation to create job opportunities

  9. Adopt and implement sound policies for the promotion of sustainable tourism

  10. Strengthen the capacity of developing countries to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
• SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
• SDG 9 Aim


  • Built resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation