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- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Kailash Satyarthi’s [child rights campaigner and Nobel Peace Laureate, 2014] comments on SDG
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Also called as Global Goals, Agenda 2030.
- They will follow on from the Millennium Development Goals once those expire at the end of 2015
- The SDGs were first formally discussed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 (Rio+20).
- Total 17 goals with 169 targets covering a broad range of sustainable development issues.
- Up to 2015, the development agenda was centered on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were officially established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000.
SGDs
MGDs
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17 goals
Poverty and Hunger- End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
- Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
- Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
What are the SDGs and how will they be measured?
- The SDGs are a set of 17 goals and 169 targets aimed at resolving global social, economic and environmental problems.
- To be met over the next 15 years, beginning on Jan. 1, 2016, the SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were adopted in 2000 and expire this year.
- Implementation of the new goals, requiring trillions of dollars in investment, will be monitored and reviewed using a set of global indicators to be agreed by March 2016.
Who decided the SDGs?
- Governments came up with the idea at the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development in Brazil 2012.
- A working group with representatives of 70 nations drafted a proposed set of goals.
- At the same time, the United Nations ran public consultations around the world and an online survey asking people about their priorities for the goals.
- This summer governments negotiated a final version of the SDGs that are due to be adopted by 193 countries at a Sept. 25-27 summit at the United Nations in New York.
What did the MDGs accomplish?
- The United Nations says the MDGs - a set of eight goals with 21 targets - led to achievements including:
- more than halving the number of people living in extreme poverty,
- gender parity in primary schools in the majority of countries,
- reducing the rate of children dying before their fifth birthday to 43 deaths per 1,000 live births from 90,
- a fall of 45 percent in the maternal mortality ratio worldwide,
- some 37 million lives saved by tuberculosis prevention and treatment, over 6.2 million malaria deaths averted, and new HIV infection rates down by around 40 percent,
- access to improved sanitation for 2.1 billion people,
- Official development assistance from developed countries up 66 percent in real terms.
So, why do we need the SDGs?
- Some 795 million people still go hungry and around 800 million people live in extreme poverty, with fragile and conflict-torn states experiencing the highest poverty rates
- between 2008 and 2012, 144 million people were displaced from their homes by natural disasters, a number predicted to rise as the planet warms, bringing more extreme weather and rising seas
- water scarcity affects 40 percent of the global population and is projected to increase
- some 946 million people still practice open defecation
- gender inequality persists in spite of more representation for women in parliaments and more girls going to school
- 57 million children still denied right to primary education
What's new and different about the SDGs?
- The United Nations says the SDGs go much further than the previous goals, because they address the root causes of poverty and pledge to leave no one behind, including vulnerable groups.
- They also emphasize the need to tackle climate change urgently and protect the environment through a shift to sustainable consumption and production, and wiser management of natural resources.
- The SDGs are intended to be universal, applying to all countries rather than just the developing world.
- They recognize the key role of the private sector in pursuing and financing sustainable development, in partnership with governments and civil society.
Kailash Satyarthi’s [child rights campaigner and Nobel Peace Laureate, 2014] comments on SDG
- While the erstwhile Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) tackled poverty, hunger, among other problems, this is the first time when crucial child issues have gained spotlight.
- The world has finally recognized that if child labour, slavery, trafficking, and violence against children continue, we will fail to accomplish any of the other goals.
- If 17 crore child labourers continue to miss school, we will fail to achieve education goals.
- If these children keep doing the jobs of the world’s 20 crore unemployed, we will miss employment goals.
- If 5.5 million children stay stuck in slavery, enslaved in mines and factories, losing their tender organs every minute, we will lose our health goals.
- Fortunately, the UN SDGs have understood that without child development, human development is impossible.
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