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SOUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES (SDG)

1. History adopted the Millennium Declaration at the

Millennium Summit in September 2000 at UN
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Headquarters in New York. The Summit led to the
adopted by all United Nations Member States in elaboration of eight Millennium Development
2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by
prosperity for people and the planet, now and into 2015. The Johannesburg Declaration on
the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Sustainable Development and the Plan of
Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent Implementation, adopted at the World Summit on
call for action by all countries - developed and Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002,
developing - in a global partnership. They reaffirmed the global community's commitments
recognize that ending poverty and other to poverty eradication and the environment, and
deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium
that improve health and education, reduce Declaration by including more emphasis on
inequality, and spur economic growth – all while multilateral partnerships.
tackling climate change and working to preserve
our oceans and forests. The SDGs build on At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
decades of work by countries and the UN, Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
including the UN Department of Economic and in June 2012, Member States adopted the
Social Affairs outcome document "The Future We Want" in
which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process
In June 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs
Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted and to establish the UN High-level Political Forum
Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action to on Sustainable Development. The Rio +20
build a global partnership for sustainable outcome also contained other measures for
development to improve human lives and protect implementing sustainable development, including
the environment. Member States unanimously mandates for future programmes of work in
development financing, small island developing sustainable and where there is universal access
states and more. In 2013, the General Assembly to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.
set up a 30-member Open Working Group to
develop a proposal on the SDGs. In January We envisage a world of universal respect for
2015, the General Assembly began the human rights and human dignity, the rule of law,
negotiation process on the post-2015 justice, equality and non-discrimination; of
development agenda. The process culminated in respect for race, ethnicity and cultural diversity;
the subsequent adoption of the 2030 Agenda for and of equal opportunity permitting the full
Sustainable Development, with 17 SDGs at its realization of human potential and contributing to
core, at the UN Sustainable Development Summit shared prosperity. A world which invests in its
in September 2015. Paris Agreement on Climate children and in which every child grows up free
Change (December 2015) from violence and exploitation. A world in which
every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality
Now, the annual High-level Political Forum on and all legal, social and economic barriers to their
Sustainable Development serves as the central empowerment have been removed. A just,
UN platform for the follow-up and review of the equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive
SDGs. Today, the Division for Sustainable world in which the needs of the most vulnerable
Development Goals (DSDG) in the United are met.
Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (UNDESA) provides substantive support We envisage a world in which every country
and capacity-building for the SDGs and their enjoys sustained, inclusive and sustainable
related thematic issues, including water, energy, economic growth and decent work for all. A world
climate, oceans, urbanization, transport, science in which consumption and production patterns
and technology, the Global Sustainable and use of all natural resources – from air to land,
Development Report (GSDR), partnerships and from rivers, lakes and aquifers to oceans and
Small Island Developing States. DSDG plays a seas - are sustainable. One in which democracy,
key role in the evaluation of UN systemwide good governance and the rule of law as well as
implementation of the 2030 Agenda and on an enabling environment at national and
advocacy and outreach activities relating to the international levels, are essential for sustainable
SDGs. In order to make the 2030 Agenda a development, including sustained and inclusive
reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must economic growth, social development,
translate into a strong commitment by all environmental protection and the eradication of
stakeholders to implement the global goals. poverty and hunger. One in which development
DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement. and the application of technology are climate-
sensitive, respect biodiversity and are resilient.
Follow DSDG on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sustdev One in which humanity lives in harmony with
and on Twitter at @SustDev. nature and in which wildlife and other living
species are protected.
2. 2023 Vision
3. ACTIVITIES
We envisage a world free of poverty, hunger,
disease and want, where all life can thrive. We Open the next link https://sdgacademy.org/ and
envisage a world free of fear and violence. A write in your english notebook what did you
world with universal literacy. A world with understand and what was the most important for
equitable and universal access to quality you and why?
education at all levels, to health care and social
protection, where physical, mental and social According to the information what is your visión?,
well-being are assured. A world where we reaffirm identify 2 different community problems in your
our commitments regarding the human right to neighbourhood, describe them in your english
safe drinking water and sanitation and where notebook identifying which SDGs are violated and
there is improved hygiene; and where food is why? Take pictures (4) and prepare the oral
sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious. A world report. You must present it to yoour partners in
where human habitats are safe, resilient and two minutes in the classroom.