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The 2030 Agenda
The Sustainable Development Goals are a shared plan for improving people’s lives while protecting the planet. Choose a goal below to read its plain-language guide.
Start here
In 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At its centre are 17 goals and 169 targets to be pursued by 2030.
The goals are connected. Progress on education can improve health and employment; climate action can protect food, water and livelihoods. They are a framework for planning and accountability—not a set of decorative labels.
Read the official UN overviewChapter practice
Study the challenge, its causes and the people affected.
Identify the goal and targets that genuinely relate to the proposed work.
Define a useful activity, responsible partners and evidence of progress.
Publish what happened, what changed and what still needs work.
The full framework
Find a goal that interests you. Each guide explains what it means, shows an everyday example and explores where progress can begin.
Dignity, health, learning and equal opportunity for every person.
Everyone should be able to meet basic needs and find support when hardship strikes.
Read the Goal 1 guide
Everyone should have enough nutritious food, supported by farming that can endure.
Read the Goal 2 guide
People of every age should be able to stay healthy and get the care they need.
Read the Goal 3 guide
Learning should be open to everyone and equip people for life and work.
Read the Goal 4 guide
Women and girls should have equal rights, safety, choices and leadership opportunities.
Read the Goal 5 guideProgress that improves lives without leaving communities behind.
Reliable energy should be affordable and increasingly come from cleaner sources.
Read the Goal 7 guide
Economic progress should create safe, fairly paid work and opportunities for young people.
Read the Goal 8 guide
Dependable infrastructure and useful innovation help communities and businesses thrive.
Read the Goal 9 guide
Where someone comes from or who they are should not shut them out of opportunity.
Read the Goal 10 guide
Towns and cities should be safe, inclusive and prepared for future challenges.
Read the Goal 11 guideResponsible use of natural resources and protection of the living world.
Safe water, usable toilets and healthy water sources should be available to all.
Read the Goal 6 guide
Make and use things with less waste, pollution and pressure on natural resources.
Read the Goal 12 guide
Reduce the causes of climate change and prepare for its effects.
Read the Goal 13 guide
Protect ocean life and use marine resources without exhausting them.
Read the Goal 14 guide
Protect forests, land, wildlife and the ecosystems people depend on.
Read the Goal 15 guideJust, inclusive societies supported by trusted institutions.
People need safety, fair treatment and institutions they can trust.
Read the Goal 16 guideShared effort across countries, institutions, communities and generations.
Shared knowledge, resources and responsibility make the other goals possible.
Read the Goal 17 guideThe SDG logo and goal icons are from the United Nations SDG communications materials. See the UN usage guidelines.
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