Sustainable Development Goals
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Definition[edit | edit source]
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development[1].
Ongoing from its implementation in 2015, the goals universally aim to “mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind”[1].
Development of the Goals[edit | edit source]
The concept of sustainability was first defined in the Brundtland Comission’s report Our common future in 1987.
It presented a new concept of development, a “Global Agenda for Change”, which should “ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”[2]. It became a very successful approach, internationally influencing economic, social and environmental issues[3].
The latest outcome is the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was developed after the Rio+20 Conference in 2012 and adopted by world leaders at an UN summit in September 2015 (New York)[1][4].
The Millennium Development Goals were a predecessor of the SDGs[5]. However, the SDG go further than the Millennium Development Goals did before, and target not only low-income countries but all countries[1].
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 United Nations. The Sustainable Development Agenda. 2017 [cited 2017 07.12.]; Available from: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/development-agenda/.
- ↑ World Commision on Environmnet and Development, Our Common Future. 1987.
- ↑ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Sustainable Development - concept and action. 2017 [cited 2017 07.12.]; Available from: http://www.unece.org/oes/nutshell/2004-2005/focus_sustainable_development.html. .
- ↑ United Nations. United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015. 2017 [cited 2017 07.12.]; Available from: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit.
- ↑ United Nations. Sustainable Development. 2017 [cited 2017 07.12.]; Available from: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/resourcelibrary.
