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SDGs - The Sustainable Development Agenda

Since September 25, 2015, “Sustainability” has been set as focus of the UNITED NATIONS. The assortment of efforts aiming at achieving “sustainability” is called “The Agenda 2030” and was adopted as the Resolution 70/1 by the General Assembly of the UNITED NATIONS.

More Information: https://sdg-portal.de/en/

70/1. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

"The General Assembly adopts the following outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development".

Preamble

"This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.

All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path.

As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.

The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet". (United Nation Agenda 2030; https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld)