Others include ensuring gender equality and quality education, access to clean water and sanitation, affordable clean energy, urgent steps to combat climate change, building new infrastructure and ensuring sustainable economic development.
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They will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that expire this year but apply to both developing and developed countries.
The United Nations secretary-general has described this year’s subjects as “a to-do list for people and planet”, having discussed 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are going to be slowly, but surely adopted over the next 15 years.
Norway supports the vision of the UN sustainability goals against extreme poverty and hunger through sustainable development by 2030.
During Xi’s first state visit to the United States, he and US President Barack Obama also unveiled yesterday new steps they will take to deliver on pledges they made then to slash their greenhouse gas emissions. “We must leave no-one behind”.
Billions of dollars in development aid will be redirected to meet the targets but the United Nations also wants to tap into local sources of financing through improved revenue collection.
The adoption of the goals is far from a rubber-stamp event, said Amina Mohammed, Assistant Secretary-General and Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning.
The momentous sustainable development agenda, which charts a new era of sustainable development until 2030, was adopted on Friday by 193 UN member states at the UN Sustainable Development Summit at the UN headquarters in New York.
“We have reached a defining moment in human history”.
The new goals are more ambitious, and are meant to apply to every country, not just the developing world.
Commenting Kalla’s statement, International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) senior advisor Mickael Bobby Hoelman said a joint secretariat for the implementation of SDGs was neither a new office or a new institution. It promises to leave no one behind, it’s not about the rich helping the poor.
Mr Satyarthi said for the success of goals, nations need to act on 4 Cs of children, collaboration, compassionate intelligence and changemakers. “It is very much associated with ecnomic growth, I would say, more than a logistical problem, and that’s where the real challenge is”.
“The world leaders need to take all these issues more seriously”, Ms. Yousafzai told reporters.
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“Through our development program, we are working with partners to promote prosperity and reduce poverty on a sustainable basis in the Indo-Pacific”.
