The United Nations developed a set of global goals, based on the feedback of world leaders, international organizations, and the general public, to help combat these 17 startling issues. These sustainable and development goals - or SDGs - aim to confront our world's biggest problems.
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012. The UN member states started planning the development of these global goals to build on to the progress made by the 8 Millennium Development Goals - MDGs - that expired in 2015. The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals with targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest people. To meet these goals and end poverty, leaders of 189 countries signed the historic millennium declaration at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000.
Ever since the MDGs were introduced, the global rate of extreme poverty has halved globally. 2.3 billion people have gained access to clean drinking water, and we've reduced the number of children dying before 5 years of age by half. The SDGs were developed with the input and guidance of the people from all over the globe to ensure these global goals represent the needs of its entire population. The SDGs are:
1) End poverty in all forms everywhere
2) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3) Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4) Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
5) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6) Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
7) Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8) Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10) Reduce inequality within and among countries
11) Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12) Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14) Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
15) Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt bodiversity loss
16) Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
17) Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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Save Our Planet - Goal #6
Non-FictionThis short book will tell you all about the 17 sustainability and development goals, and focus a little more on the 6th global goal. Learn more about clean water and sanitation, and our goal by the year 2030. These 17 goals aim to target the most...
