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17 sustainability goals
In its 2030 Agenda, the United Nations defined <anchor>17 sustainability goals</anchor>. They include combating poverty and world hunger, education, justice, peace, decent work, economic growth, and climate protection. All states are called upon to align their actions with these goals. Germany has also committed itself to implement the goals.
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## THE 17 GOALS

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[1 **Goal 1** \
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End poverty in all its forms everywhere.\
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[2 **Goal 2** \
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End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.\
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[3 **Goal 3** \
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Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.\
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[4 **Goal 4** \
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Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.\
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[5 **Goal 5** \
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Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.\
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[6 **Goal 6** \
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Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.\
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[7 **Goal 7** \
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Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.\
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[8 **Goal 8** \
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Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.\
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[9 **Goal 9** \
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Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.\
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[10 **Goal 10** \
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Reduce inequality within and among countries.\
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[11 **Goal 11** \
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Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.\
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[12 **Goal 12** \
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Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.\
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[13 **Goal 13** \
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Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.\
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[14 **Goal 14** \
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Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.\
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[15 **Goal 15** \
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Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.\
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[16 **Goal 16** \
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Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.\
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[17 **Goal 17** \
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Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.\
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## Do you know all 17 SDGs?

##### Do you know all 17 SDGs?

##### [History](\#history)

##### [Implementation Progress](\#implementation)

##### [SDGs Icons. Downloads and guidelines](\#icons)

## History

[The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,](https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda) adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They 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 SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the [UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs](https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/)

- In June 1992, at the [Earth Summit](https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted [Agenda 21](https://sdgs.un.org/publications/agenda21), a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.
- Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at the [Millennium Summit](https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/newyork2000) in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York. The Summit led to the elaboration of eight [Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)](http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
- The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at the [World Summit on Sustainable Development](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/milesstones/wssd) in South Africa in 2002, reaffirmed the global community's commitments to poverty eradication and the environment, and built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration by including more emphasis on multilateral partnerships.
- At the [United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document ["The Future We Want"](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1298) in which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs and to establish the [UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf). The Rio +20 outcome also contained other measures for implementing sustainable development, including mandates for future programmes of work in development financing, small island developing states and more.
- In 2013, the General Assembly set up a 30-member [Open Working Group](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/owg) to develop a proposal on the SDGs.
- In January 2015, the General Assembly began the negotiation process on the [post-2015 development agenda](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/negotiations). The process culminated in the subsequent adoption of the [2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld), with [17 SDGs](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs) at its core, at the [UN Sustainable Development Summit](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit) in September 2015.
- 2015 was a landmark year for multilateralism and international policy shaping, with the adoption of several major agreements:
  - [Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/frameworks/sendaiframework) (March 2015)
  - [Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/frameworks/addisababaactionagenda) (July 2015)
  - [Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development](https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda) with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the [UN Sustainable Development Summit](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit) in New York in September 2015.
  - [Paris Agreement on Climate Change](https://sdgs.un.org/frameworks/parisagreement) (December 2015)
- Now, the annual [High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf) serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.

Today, the [Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)](https://sdgs.un.org/about) in the United Nations [Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)](https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/) provides substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their related thematic issues, including [water](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/water-and-sanitation), [energy](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/energy), [climate](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/climate-change), [oceans](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/oceans-and-seas), [urbanization](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/sustainable-cities-and-human-settlements), [transport](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/sustainable-transport), [science and technology](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/science), the [Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)](https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr), [partnerships](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdinaction) and [Small Island Developing States](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/small-island-developing-states). DSDG plays a key role in the evaluation of UN systemwide implementation of the 2030 Agenda and on advocacy and outreach activities relating to the SDGs. In order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement.

Follow DSDG on Facebook at [www.facebook.com/sustdev](http://www.facebook.com/sustdev) and on Twitter at [@SustDev](https://twitter.com/sustdev).

## Implementation Progress

Every year, the UN Secretary General presents an annual SDG Progress report, which is developed in cooperation with the UN System, and based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national statistical systems and information collected at the regional level.

Please, check below information about the SDG Progress Report:

- [SDG Progress Report (2024)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/report/2024/SG-SDG-Progress-Report-2024-advanced-unedited-version.pdf)
- [SDG Progress Report (2023)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/)
- [SDG Progress Report (2022)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2022/)
- [SDG Progress Report (2021)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/)
- [SDG Progress Report (2020)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2020/)
- [SDG Progress Report (2019)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/)
- [SDG Progress Report (2018)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2018/)
- [SDG Progress Report (2017)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2017/)
- [SDG Progress Report (2016)](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2016/)

Please, check here for information about SDG indicators and reports: [https://unstats.un.org/sdgs#](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs)

Additionally, the **Global Sustainable Development Report** is produced once every four years to inform the quadrennial SDG review deliberations at the General Assembly. It is written by an Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the Secretary-General.

- [Global Sustainable Development Report (2019)](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/gsdr2019)
- [Global Sustainable Development Report (2023)](https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023)

## SDGs Icons. Downloads and guidelines.

- Download SDGs icons according to guidelines at [this link](https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/news/communications-material/).
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