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What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
In 2015, the United Nations set an ambitious 15-year plan to address some of the most pressing issues faced by the world. By supporting our members to maximize the benefits of international standardization and ensure the uptake of ISO standards, we’re helping to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Economic, environmental and societal dimensions are all directly addressed by ISO standards. Organizations and companies looking to contribute to the SDGs will find that...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 interconnected global goals adopted by the United Nations (UN) member states in September 2015.
These goals are designed to address a wide range of global challenges and guide international efforts toward a more sustainable and equitable future.
The SDGs cover various dimensions of sustainable development, including economic, social, and environmental aspects.
The goals aim to eliminate poverty, promote prosperity, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
Here is a brief overview of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals:
- No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
- Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
- Good Health and Well-being: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
- Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
- Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
- Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
- Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
- Decent Work and Economic Growth: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
- Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
- Reduced Inequality: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
- Sustainable Cities and Communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
- Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- Climate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
- Life Below Water: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
- Life on Land: Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
- Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
- Partnerships for the Goals: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
These goals are interconnected, recognizing that actions in one area can have positive or negative impacts on others.
Achieving the SDGs requires collaboration and partnership among governments, the private sector, civil society, and individuals on a global scale.
