LEVEL 1: LEARNING ABOUT THE 2030 AGENDA AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
The Sustainable Development Goals are part of a global agenda for achieving poverty reduction and sustainable development for people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships through 17 specific and concrete goals:
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 equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements 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 for sustainable development
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Explore and learn about the goals and their progress
the need for a common agenda
A LOOK AT THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Why do we need the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets are part of the United Nations 2015-2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The SDGs reflect a priority to: End poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfill their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment (People); Protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations (Planet); Ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature (Prosperity); Foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development (Peace); Mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focussed in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people (Partnership).
The Crucial Partnerships for Achieving a Common Agenda
Achieving a sustainable and common future with no poverty, no hunger, good health and well-being, quality education, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, industry innovation and infrastructure, reduced inequality, sustainable cities and communities, responsible consumption and production, climate action, life below water, life on land, peace justice and strong institutions require effective and competent cross-sector partnerships (SDG 17).
Beyond People, Planet and Prosperity
At SDG SERVICES we believe that achieving these ambitious goals require awareness about the Principles of sustainability leadership, capacity to map organizational Performances toward the SDGs, designing adequate Policies for the common good along with the promotion of socially and globally responsible Practices at the personal, organizational and system levels.