1. No Poverty
The first goal is to end poverty in all its forms, everywhere. This means eradicating extreme poverty, reducing the proportion of people living below the poverty line, and implementing social protection systems.
2. Zero Hunger
The second goal is to achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. It aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable farming practices.
3. Good Health and Well-being
Goal number three focuses on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. It includes targets to reduce maternal and child mortality, combat major diseases, and ensure universal access to healthcare services.
4. Quality Education
Goal four aims to provide inclusive and equitable quality education for all. It focuses on ensuring access to free primary and secondary education, promoting lifelong learning opportunities, and improving educational facilities.
5. Gender Equality
The fifth goal is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. It involves eliminating discrimination and violence against women, ensuring equal rights and opportunities, and promoting women’s participation in decision-making processes.
6. Clean Water and Sanitation
Goal six focuses on ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. It aims to provide access to clean drinking water, improve water quality, and promote adequate sanitation facilities.
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
The seventh goal aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. It involves increasing the share of renewable energy, enhancing energy efficiency, and expanding access to electricity in developing countries.
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
Goal eight aims to promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. It focuses on creating job opportunities, promoting entrepreneurship, and improving access to financial services.
9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal nine focuses on building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation. It involves developing reliable and sustainable transport systems, supporting technological progress, and enhancing access to information and communication technologies.
10. Reduced Inequalities
The tenth goal aims to reduce inequalities within and among countries. It focuses on combating discrimination, promoting social, economic, and political inclusion, and ensuring equal opportunities for all.
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
Goal eleven aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. It involves providing access to affordable housing, ensuring sustainable urbanization, and improving slum conditions.
12. Responsible Consumption and Production
Goal twelve focuses on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. It aims to reduce waste generation, promote sustainable practices in industries, and encourage responsible consumption and production.
13. Climate Action
Goal thirteen focuses on taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It involves strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity, promoting climate change education, and mobilizing financial resources to address climate change challenges.
14. Life Below Water
The fourteenth goal aims to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development. It involves preventing marine pollution, protecting ecosystems, and promoting sustainable fishing practices.
15. Life on Land
Goal fifteen focuses on protecting, restoring, and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managing forests, combating desertification, and halting biodiversity loss.
16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
The sixteenth goal aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. It focuses on reducing violence and corruption, ensuring equal access to justice, and promoting accountable governance.
17. Partnerships for the Goals
The seventeenth goal aims to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. It involves promoting partnerships between governments, private sectors, and civil society, enhancing resource mobilization, and improving policy coherence for sustainable development.
These are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations. They provide a blueprint and a global framework for action to address some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity and our planet. By working together and taking action, we have the opportunity to create a better and more sustainable future for all.