Sustainable Development Goals

More than 8 million people surveyed worldwide responded to this question. Their answers helped the 193 Member States of the United Nations at the annual UN General Assembly in September 2015 to adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda, which presents a vision of a better world by 2030. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is based on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focuses on human progress. It directs development towards the eradication of poverty and hunger, gender equality and reduction of inequalities, towards health system improvement, biodiversity, quality of life under water and on land, sustainable urbanization, consumption and production, towards countering climate change, as well as strengthening partnerships and institutions that are needed for exercising human rights, peace and justice.