History
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and planet, now and in the future.
At its core are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call to action by all countries, developed and developing, in a global partnership.
They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand in hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and stimulate economic growth, all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
The SDGs are based on decades of work by countries and the United Nations, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
- In June 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.
- Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at the Millennium Summit held in September 2000 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Summit resulted in the elaboration of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
- The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002, reaffirmed the global community’s commitments to poverty eradication and the environment, and built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration by including a greater emphasis on multilateral partnerships.
- At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document ‘The Future We Want’, in which they decided, among other things, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs based on the MDGs and to establish the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
The Rio+20 outcome document also contained other measures for the implementation of sustainable development, including mandates for future work programmes on financing for development, small island developing states and others.
- In 2013, the General Assembly established a 30-member Open Working Group to develop a proposal on the SDGs.
- In January 2015, the General Assembly launched the negotiation process for the post-2015 development agenda, which culminated in the subsequent adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with 17 SDGs at its core, at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015.
- 2015 was a landmark year for multilateralism and international policymaking, with the adoption of several important agreements:
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015)
- Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development (July 2015)
- Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015.
- Paris Agreement on climate change (December 2015).
- Today, the annual High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.
Currently, the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) provides substantial support and capacity building for the SDGs and their related thematic issues, such as water, energy, climate, oceans, urbanisation, transport, science and technology, the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), partnerships and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The DSDG plays a key role in assessing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda across the UN system and in advocacy and outreach activities related to the SDGs.
For the 2030 Agenda to become a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into strong commitment from all stakeholders to implement the global goals. The DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement.
Implementation progress
Each year, the UN Secretary-General presents an annual SDG progress report, which is developed in cooperation with the UN system and is based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national statistical systems and information collected at the regional level.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals:
- No poverty
- Zero hunger
- Good health and well-being
- Quality education
- Gender Equality
- Clean water and sanitation
- Affordable and clean energy
- Decent work and economic growth
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- Reduced inequalities
- Sustainable cities and communities
- Responsible consumption and production
- Climate action
- Life bellow water
- Life on land
- Peace, justice and strong institutions
- Partnerships for the goals
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