SDG Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), officially known as “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” is a set of seventeen aspirational “Global Goals” with 169 targets and244 indicators between them by April 2017. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. SDGs are a set of universal goals that meet the urgent environmental, political, and economic challenges facing our world.

Many countries give high priority development agendas are now focusing on Sustainable Development Goals and how they will improve lives while protecting the planet over the next fifteen years. By developing sustainable growth policies, local governments in partnership with the community, can improve the quality of life of citizens and contribute to protecting the global environment.

  • Goal 01

    End poverty in all its forms everywhere

  • Goal 02

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

  • Goal 03

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

  • Goal 04

    Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

  • Goal 05

    Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

  • Goal 06

    Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

  • Goal 07

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

  • Goal 08

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

  • Goal 09

    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

  • 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

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