About the Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the new global framework to help eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development by 2030. It includes an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals and Targets. Read the full text of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also aims to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest challenge facing the world and a prerequisite for sustainable development.
This plan will be implemented by all countries and stakeholders through a collaborative partnership. We are determined to free humanity from the tyranny of poverty and deprivation and to heal and protect our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps that are urgently needed to put the world back on the path to sustainability and resilience. As we embark on this journey together, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets that we are announcing today demonstrate the magnitude of this ambitious new universal Agenda.
It also aims to realize the human rights of all people and to achieve gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls. The Goals and targets are integrated and indivisible, bringing together the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.
The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next 15 years in the following areas of critical importance to humanity and the planet.
People
We are determined to end poverty and hunger in all its forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can realize their potential in dignity and equality in a healthy environment.
The planet
We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainable management of its natural resources and urgent action to address climate change, so that it can meet the needs of present and future generations.
Prosperity
We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy a prosperous and fulfilling life, and that economic, social and technological progress is in harmony with nature.
Peace
We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies that are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace, and peace without sustainable development.
Partnership
We are determined to mobilize the means necessary to implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of greater global solidarity, with a particular focus on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, with the collaboration of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.
These are the 17 goals. For each goal and its targets, we define #tagcoding tags and indicate the relationships to economic activities and government functions. Some additional links are also provided: to a list of initiatives, to indicators and to related open data.
- #sdg1 - End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- #sdg2 - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
- #sdg3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- #sdg4 - Ensure inclusive, equitable and quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- #sdg5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- #sdg6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
- #sdg7 - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
- #sdg8 - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- #sdg9 - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- #sdg10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries
- #sdg11 - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- #sdg12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- #sdg13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- #sdg14 - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
- #sdg15 - Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- #sdg16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- #sdg17 - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development