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UN Sustainable Development Goals for next 15 years

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2015-08-04 16:48Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

The 193 member states of the United Nations have reached agreement on the new Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) that aim to end poverty as well as promote prosperity and people's well-being while protecting the environment by 2030.

The accord is an ambitious agenda featuring 17 new sustainable development goals to replace the retiring 15-year-old Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The following is a brief account of the SDGs:

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere;

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture;

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages;

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning;

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls;

Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all;

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all;

Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all;

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation;

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries;

Goal 11: Make cities 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;

Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss;

Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies;

Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

  

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