Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015 the United Nations agreed a set of ‘sustainable development’ goals that were focused on ending poverty around the world, protecting the planet and ensuring a new prosperity for everyone.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals or the ‘Global Goals’ included over 169 targets that would ensure that all of the countries of the world would work to protect the planet.

The range of the goals showed that world leaders were intent on making big changes to the world as each of these goals was to be applied universally to all countries.

The goals were aimed at stimulating action across the world over the next 15 years for:

• People - to end poverty and hunger in all of its forms so that people would be able to fulfil their true potential in dignity and equality.
• Planet - to protect the planet from degradation and to make sure that the world became increasingly sustainable and was managing its natural resources carefully.
• Prosperity - to ensure that all people would be able to lead prosperous lives in harmony with nature.
• Peace - to ensure that peaceful societies would be free from fear and violence.
• Partnership - to mobilise the means and money to support this agenda.