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The Sustainable Development Goals: Illustrated by Yacine Aït Kaci (YAK)

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On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda to be achieved by 2030. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and people like you. Elyx, the United Nations’ digital ambassador, uses various expressions and actions to help demonstrate the meaning of each goal. Created by French artist YAK, Elyx has no race, sex or nationality and is a universal character promoting the importance of the United Nations’ work.

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World's Largest Lesson! Really interesting video about the goals

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During the COVID-19 outbreak, when so many children are learning at home, World's Largest Lesson and UNICEF have created a distance-learning YouTube show.

World's Largest Lesson Live is 35 minute learning show suitable for age 13+ available in English, French and Spanish, featuring:

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

UN Deputy Secretary General Amina J Mohammed

Director General World Health Organisation Dr Tedros Adhanom

WHO COVID-19 response technical lead Dr Maria Van Kerkhove

Actor and singer Sofia Carson

Actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Millie Bobby Brown

The Brooklyn Youth Choir

Young people from around the world!

We're inviting everyone to reimagine the future using the Global Goals (SDGs) as inspiration.

Use the follow-up activities below to extend the learning - in the classroom or around the kitchen table.

Distance learning, Parents, Videos

Health and Education, Human and Child Rights, Peace and Justice, Poverty and Inequality

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World's Largest Lesson: Live! | The World's Largest Lesson

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A 30 minute YouTube Show for Teens featuring Millie Bobby Brown

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The United Nations created the Global Goals in 2015 with the hopes of achieving a better world. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality of achieving those goals by 2030 is becoming less likely and millions are at risk of falling into extreme poverty. You can join us in taking action on this issue here.
The United Nations' 17 Global Goals are a blueprint for how the world can come together to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They look to end poverty, inequality, climate change, and achieve peace and justice, with the ultimate goal of ending extreme by 2030.

And while there have been significant global initiatives put in place since their adoption in 2015, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely hindered progress made by the international community to reach the Global Goals. It will take an incredible international effort to try and reach the targets within the next 10 years.

It can seem overwhelming to learn about each one of the Global Goals, but the following documentaries highlight the importance of achieving each one and serve as a reminder of how they are all interconnected.

Here's a list of 10 educational films on key issues related to the UN's Global Goals.

This film, released by the UN in September, sets out to explain the action that is needed to achieve the goals in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic has eliminated years of progress toward achieving the Global Goals by pushing millions into poverty, worsening gender inequality, and disrupting access to education.

The international community was already off track to meet the goals' targets by 2030, and the pandemic is affecting the world's most vulnerable population the most severely.

Produced by UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate Richard Curtis, "Nations United" includes education advocate Malala Yousafzai, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and actress and women's rights activist Thandie Newton OBE, among others.

Together, they unpack the biggest problems that the world is facing and present four key areas that require urgent action.

Global Goal 1 calls for the eradication of poverty around the world. This hard-hitting documentary, which came out in 2008, shows the real-life experiences of people who are trapped in poverty and highlights the severe economic inequalities that exist globally.

Historians, economists, and psychologists all come together to explain the systems that allow for rampant poverty to exist and suggest innovative ways to end it.

While global poverty had declined since the documentary was first released 12 years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on progress in this area.

The UN suggests that 71 million more people could be pushed into poverty from the pandemic. This year is the first time that global poverty has risen since 1998, and could lead to rising hunger and homelessness around the world.

Before COVID-19, global hunger was already on the rise around the world. In 2018, 26.4% of the population was affected by moderate or severe food insecurity, according to the UN.

Every Three Seconds is filmed across Africa, Latin America, and Asia and examines the issues that created the global hunger crisis. The title comes from the reality that, in 2015, every three seconds someone died from extreme hunger and poverty.

Global Goal 2 aims to end world hunger, but the pandemic has made efforts to address hunger more complicated due to economic disruptions and lockdowns.

In the documentary, five activists come together to show the different solutions that they are working on to address global hunger.

A goal that is especially relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, is Global Goal 3 as it is dedicated to ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access quality health care.

This documentary follows four doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia. The film highlights the reality of how limited access to health care is for vulnerable people affected by crises.

Since 1971, MSF has been delivering medical aid and essential health care services to communities impacted by conflict. People living in conflict-affected areas are more at risk of mental and physical trauma and can also be affected by disease outbreaks. Disruptions to food, water, and medical supplies also make them more likely to develop other health issues.

The documentary was shortlisted as one of 15 films in the Documentary Feature category for the 82nd Academy Awards.

Quality education has the power to help children around the world develop the skills they need to escape the cycle of poverty. However, many children face significant challenges in accessing school, and in some places, cultural norms and economic hardships prevent students from going to school at all.

This documentary shows the long journeys that four students in Kenya, India, Morocco, and Argentina all take to get to school every day. These children, like millions of others around the world, face significant challenges before they even arrive at their classrooms each morning.

Global Goal 4 aims to ensure more children can access inclusive and quality education. While the percentage of students in primary school has been rising, the COVID-19 pandemic saw 90% of all students out of school at one point in 2020 and exacerbated inequalities in education.

While women and girls' quality of life has improved over the past years, this documentary helps viewers to understand the challenges that girls around the world face in their everyday lives.

I Am a Girl follows six girls in six different countries as they navigate growing up and becoming women in the 21st century. The film emphasizes the need for Global Goal 5, which is dedicated to fighting for an equal world for women and girls.

Even in 2020, there is still no country where women and girls can enjoy true equality.

This documentary shows the important role that girls and women play in their communities - and shows that when women and girls are empowered, they can uplift everyone around them.

This documentary captures how the Global Goals are interconnected.

Waterschool follows six girls living along some of the world's rivers who are in taking part in educational programs focusing on water and sustainability. It effectively promotes Global Goals 4, 5, and 6 by emphasizing the importance of providing accessible education, empowering young women, and protecting clean water supplies.

More than 2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water and 3 billion people lacked basic hand-washing facilities at home, according to data from the UN. Water scarcity is also a huge potential problem and could displace up to 700 million people by 2030.

This documentary showcases the water school conservation program to stress the necessity of conserving water supplies around the world.

Global Goal 7 is about ensuring affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy, and this documentary helps address all of the questions that people have about solar energy.

The 2016 Netflix documentary works to debunk false claims that clean and renewable energy sources require sacrificing economic prosperity and shows just the opposite. By following unemployed American workers, Chinese solar entrepreneurs, and environmental activists, viewers gain a holistic understanding of the power of solar energy.

Around the world, 789 million people do not have access to electricity, according to the UN. However, the energy created from fossil fuels is contributing to climate change and damaging our planet.

Catching the Sun provides important information about an alternative to the fossil fuel industry that will prevent pollution and create new, green jobs.

This documentary by American economist, author, and professor Robert Reich confronts uncomfortable realities about economic distribution and inequality. Although the documentary focuses on inequality in the US, it is still relevant to countries around the world.

Reich argues for economic systems where everyone has access to jobs that pay them a living wage as he believes that the middle and lower classes have been left behind.

His ideas echo the motivation behind Global Goal 8, which focuses on promoting sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth for everyone. Similarly, Global Goal 10 calls for the global community to come together and reduce economic inequalities.

Inequality for All helps viewers understand how global economic systems result in people being stuck in systems of poverty and why economic growth must be inclusive.

This documentary is another example of a film that touches on multiple Global Goals.

Goals 11 through 15 are Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water, and Life on Land, and all of these are addressed in an Inconvenient Sequel.

The documentary is about the reality of climate change and the lack of action taken by the world's leadership to protect the environment. The toll of anthropogenic pollution on the environment is affecting everything from marine life in the Caribbean to animals in India to plants in the Amazon.

The film follows former Vice President Al Gore as he trains groups of climate champions and activists to fight for better climate policy to protect our planet.

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10 Documentaries That Show How Crucial the Global Goals Are to Ending Poverty

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The United Nations created the Global Goals in 2015 with the hopes of achieving a better world. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality of achieving those goals by 2030 is becoming less likely and millions are at risk of falling into extreme poverty. You can join us in taking action on this issue here .

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"The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also called Global Goals, are an inter-governmentally agreed set of targets relating to international development. They will follow on from the Millennium Development Goals once those expire at the end of 2015." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals)

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4. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day 1.2 By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions 1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable 1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

5. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters 1.a Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions 1.b Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions

6. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons 2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

7. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality 2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed

8. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 2.a Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries 2.b Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round 2.c Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility

9. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births 3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births 3.3 By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases 3.4 By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well- being

10. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol 3.6 By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents 3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

11. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination 3.a Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate 3.b Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all

12. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 3.c Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States 3.d Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks

13. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes 4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education 4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university 4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

14. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations 4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy 4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development

15. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all 4.b By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries 4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States

16. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere 5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation 5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

17. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate 5.5 Ensure women's full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life 5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

18. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 5.a Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws 5.b Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women 5.c Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

19. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all 6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations 6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally 6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity

20. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate 6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes 6.a By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies 6.b Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management

21. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 7.1 By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services 7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix 7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

22. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 7.a By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology 7.b By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support

23. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 8.1 Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries 8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors 8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

24. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 8.4 Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead 8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value 8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

25. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 8.7 Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms 8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment 8.9 By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

26. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 8.9 By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products 8.10Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all 8.a Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries 8.b By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization

27. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all 9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry's share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries 9.3 Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets

28. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 9.4 By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities 9.5 Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending

29. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States 9.b Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities 9.c Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020

30. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average 10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status 10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

31. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality 10.5 Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations 10.6 Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions 10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies

32. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 10.a Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements 10.b Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes 10.c By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent

33. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 11.1 By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums 11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons 11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries

34. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world's cultural and natural heritage 11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations 11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management 11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities

35. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 11.a Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, per-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning 11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels 11.c Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials

36. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 12.1 Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries 12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources 12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses 12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

37. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse 12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle 12.7 Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities 12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

38. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 12.a Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production 12.b Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products 12.c Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities

39. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 13.1Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries 13.2Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning 13.3Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

40. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 13.aImplement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

41. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 13.bPromote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities * Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.

42. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution 14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans 14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels

43. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics 14.5 By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information

44. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 14.6 By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation 14.6 By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation

45. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 14.7 By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism 14.a Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries

46. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 14.b Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets 14.c Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of The Future We Want

47. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements 15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally 15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities

48. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 15.4 By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development 15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species 15.6 Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed 15.7 Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products

49. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 15.8 By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species 15.9 By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts 15.a Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems

50. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 15.b Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation 15.c Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities

51. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 16.1 Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere 16.2 End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children 16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all 16.4 By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime

52. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 16.5 Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms 16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels 16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision- making at all levels 16.8 Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance

53. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS 16.9 By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration 16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements 16.a Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime 16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development

54. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS Finance 17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection 17.2 Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

55. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS Finance 17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources 17.4 Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress 17.5 Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

56. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics TARGETS Technology 17.6 Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism 17.7 Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed 17.8 Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

57. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics Capacity-Building 17.9Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South- South and triangular cooperation

58. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics Trade 17.10Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda 17.11Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries' share of global exports by 2020 17.12Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

59. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics Systemic issues Policy and Institutional coherence 17.13Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence 17.14Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development 17.15Respect each country's policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development

60. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics Multi-stakeholder partnerships 17.16Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries 17.17Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

61. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics Data, monitoring and accountability 17.18 By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts 17.19 By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries * Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.

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Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals)

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Download Now Download Download to read offline "The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also called Global Goals, are an inter-governmentally agreed set of targets relating to international development. They will follow on from the Millennium Development Goals once those expire at the end of 2015." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals) Read more 1. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics 2.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

The 17 SDGs are integrated-they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Countries have committed to prioritize progress for those who're furthest behind. The SDGs are designed to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls.

The creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources from all of society is necessary to achieve the SDGs in every context.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

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What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?