There are 17 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 ages.
- Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
- Ensure access to water and sanitation for all.
- Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
- Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all.
- Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.
- Reduce inequality within and among countries.
- Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
- Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources.
- Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss.
- Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.
- Revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development.
World leaders agreed to these 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are an expansive framework for improving the quality of life on this planet within a generation. The aim is to build a better world by 2030 and hence referred to as the 2030 Agenda.
The SDGs are a bold commitment covering everything from reducing hunger and poverty to providing quality education and ensuring access to clean water.
The 17 objectives, broken down into 169 more specific targets, form the core and describe the ideal horizon for 2030 of sustainable development assuming as much social justice as economic growth, peace and solidarity as the preservation of ecosystems.
