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2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 Targets: Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education […]

2030 Agenda Civil Society Watch

Beijing+20: Civil Society Side Event to the UN Global Leader’s Meeting On 27 September 2015, during the UN Sustainable Development Summit, the Post-2015 Women’s Coalition, in partnership with dozens of other civil society organizations, held a side event to the UN Global Leaders Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action, which was hosted by UN Women […]

2030 Agenda UN Summit

UN Summit on the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda The United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly, was held from 25-27 September 2015, in New York. During the Summit, the 193 Member States adopted the new development agenda, including the next generation of global goals called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The […]

History of the 2030 Agenda

On this page: I. History II. Process III. Coalition Demands I. History of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development On December 31, 2015, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — a set of 8 goals adopted in 2000 to address global issues such as poverty, hunger, disease, gender inequality, and access to water and sanitation — came to […]

2030 Timeline

Timeline of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and related processes: 1992: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (Earth Summit or Rio Summit) 1995: Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action) 2002: World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Summit, or Rio+10) 2012: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) 2013 – 2014: Open Working Group […]