The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)🌍🌱 **Introduction: **The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is like a global g...
Published on by Hossein Ataei Far, Deputy Manager of the Research, Technology Development, and Industry Relations Center at NWWEC
🌍🌱 **Introduction: **
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is like a global guidebook, outlining goals for improving life on Earth while protecting our environment. The agenda (A/RES/70/1 - Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) is a plan of action for people, the planet, and prosperity.
🎯 **Objective: **
To create a world where everyone can thrive, without poverty or inequality, while safeguarding our planet's future.
🌍🌱 ** The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: **
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. It provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At the heart of this agenda are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries around the world. These goals recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are:
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
The following text outlines the main sections of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
**Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all**
This goal aims to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030. It includes increasing the share of renewable energy, doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency, enhancing international cooperation for clean energy research and technology, and expanding infrastructure for supplying modern energy services in developing countries.
**Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation**
This goal focuses on developing sustainable and resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, increasing access to financial services for small-scale enterprises, upgrading infrastructure and industries for sustainability, enhancing scientific research and technological capabilities, and providing support for sustainable infrastructure development in developing countries.
**Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts**
This goal emphasizes strengthening resilience to climate-related hazards, integrating climate change measures into national policies, improving education and awareness on climate change, mobilizing financial resources for developing countries, promoting capacity building for effective climate change planning and management, and focusing on vulnerable groups such as women, youth, and marginalized communities.
**Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development**
This goal addresses various means of implementation, including finance, technology, capacity building, trade, and systemic issues. It emphasizes strengthening domestic resource mobilization, fulfilling official development assistance commitments, mobilizing additional financial resources, promoting sustainable debt management, enhancing international cooperation on science, technology, and innovation, and fostering multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development. It also emphasizes the importance of data, monitoring, and accountability in tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The COP28 UN Climate Change Conference:
28 recently concluded the first 'global stocktake' of the world's efforts to address climate change under the Paris Agreement.
🔚 **Conclusion and Keynote Summary: **
The 2030 Agenda sets the path for a better future, but we must act fast to bridge the gap between our goals and reality. Together, we can create a sustainable world by 2030. 🌟🌿
References:
[1] https://lnkd.in/d3f8KFPR
[2] https://unfccc.int/cop28