UN Development Goals 2030 set to Replace Millennium Development Goals 2015

The Future We Want, the Rio+20 outcome document set out a mandate to establish an Open Working Group to develop a set of sustainable developments goals (SDGs) for consideration and action by the General Assembly at its 68th session. The sustainable developments goals were to be aligned with and integrated into the UN development agenda beyond 2015.

Here, we list out the new sustainable developments goals to be adopted by the 193 member states of the UN in its next session. The goals are to be achieved by 2030. These new goals will replace the eight Millennium Development Goals which were adopted in 2000 and will expire in 2015.

• End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
• Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all
• Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation
• Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• Conserve and sustain-ably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
• Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss
• Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
• Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development