The Sustainable Development Goals

Between September 25th and 27th 2015, the United Nations discussed and adopted a fifteen year agenda, Transforming Our World: the 2020 Agenda for Sustainable Development: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.[...]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 they 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.