United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs)

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization whose mission is to ensure international peace and security, foster peaceful relations between nations, promote international collaboration, and serve as a main focus for coordinating national efforts. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), represent an urgent call to action for all countries, developed and developing, to collaborate in a global partnership. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers 17 goals and a worldwide road map for human and environmental well-being for today and the future.

Goal 1: - No Poverty: The goal is to eradicate poverty in all forms worldwide by 2030. The aim is to ensure basic necessities to all, including access to water and sanitation, education, and health care.?

Goal 2: - Zero Hunger: The aim of this is to promote sustainable agriculture, reduce hunger, and achieve enhanced nutrition and food security. Extreme hunger and malnutrition continue to hinder sustainable development and place people in a bind from which they are unable to easily escape.?

Goal 3: - Good Health and Well-Being: To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being is important to building prosperous societies.?

Goal 4: - Quality Education: Providing quality education for all is fundamental to creating a peaceful and prosperous world. Education gives people the knowledge and skills they need to stay healthy, get jobs and foster tolerance.?

Goal 5: - Gender Equality: Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. But today gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress. Women continue to be underrepresented at all levels of political leadership.

Goal 6: - Clean Water and Sanitation: Access to water, sanitation and hygiene is a human right. The demand for water has outpaced population growth, and half the world’s population is already experiencing severe water scarcity at least one month a year.

Goal 7: - Affordable and Clean Energy: A well-established energy system that is affordable, reliable, and sustainable supporting all sectors: from businesses, medicine & education to agriculture, infrastructure, communications and high technology.

Goal 8: - Decent Work and Economic Growth: To promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all to drive progress, and improve living standards.

Goal 9: - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: To build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation.?

Goal 10: - Reduced Inequalities: To reduce inequalities within and among countries. Inequalities based on income, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, class, ethnicity, religion and opportunity continue to persist across the world.

Goal 11: - Sustainable Cities: To make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.?

Goal 12: - Responsible Consumption & Production: Economic and social progress over the last century has been accompanied by environmental degradation that is endangering the very systems on which our future development and survival depend.

Goal 13: - Climate Action: Urgent action is desirable here as the global community shies away from making a full commitment to the reversal of adverse climatic changes.

Goal 14: - Life Below Water: Oceans are our planet’s life support and regulate the global climate system. They are the world’s largest ecosystem, home to nearly a million known species and containing the vast untapped potential for scientific discovery. There is a need to conserve this enormous resource

Goal 15: - Life On Land: To sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.?

?Goal 16: - Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: To ensure that everyone has access to justice and to construct effective, responsible, and inclusive institutions at all levels.

Goal 17: - Partnerships: To revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development. Post Covid19, strengthening multilateralism and global partnerships assume importance more than ever if we are to solve the world’s problems.

Nisarga E S is a Semester III MBA Student of the Batch 2022 - 24.

Article edited by Prof. Cdr Himanshu Joshi.