UN Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
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“World leaders have an unprecedented opportunity this
year to shift the world onto a path of inclusive, sustainable and resilient
development" - Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator, January 2015.
Paul Ladd, Director of the UNDP Team on the Post-2015
Development Agenda, talks about 2015, a year in which countries will shape
a new development agenda, and reach a global agreement on climate change.
What is the post-2015 sustainable development agenda?
The new post-2015 development agenda builds on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015. Enormous progress has been made on the MDGs, showing the value of a unifying agenda underpinned by goals and targets. Yet despite this success, the indignity of poverty has not been ended for all.
The members of the United Nations are now in the process of defining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of a new agenda to finish the job of the MDGs, and leave no one behind.
This agenda will be adopted by Member States at the Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015.
What are the proposed SDGs?
1. End poverty in all its forms
everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food
security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and
promote wellbeing for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable
quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable
management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable,
reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive
and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent
work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure,
promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among
countries
11. Make cities and human settlements
inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption
and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate
change and its impacts (taking note of agreements made by the UNFCCC forum)
14. Conserve and sustainably use the
oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable
use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification
and halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive
societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all
and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation
and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development
At the end of 2014, the UN Secretary General presented the synthesis report “The road to dignity by 2030” covering all the processes and reports related to post-2015, including the UN consultations.
What is UNDP's role with the SDGs?
Over the past three years, UNDP and the UN Development Group (UNDG) have been facilitating an unprecedented global conversation. This has connected with a diverse set of stakeholders, including vulnerable groups, women, young people, people with disabilities and the private sector, as well as all levels of the government.
The global conversation in numbers:
7.3 million people have ranked
their priorities for the future via the MY World survey
National consultations on the
‘world that people want’ in almost 100 countries
11 global thematic consultations
via the World We Want website
More than 4 million World We
Want total page views and 7,000 visitors per month
6 consultations on means of
implementation with more than 30,000 participants
Innovative and illustrative
governance goals piloted in 5 countries; pilot goals on disaster risk reduction
in 5 countries
Over 1 million qualitative contributions
aggregated by the project’s People’s Voices Data Mining Tool
The key messages from the two reports ‘A Million Voices’ and ‘Delivering the Post-2015 Development Agenda,’ which summarize the findings from the global conversation, are clear: People want to be a part of delivering this new agenda, and to hold governments and businesses accountable for their promises and commitments. People stressed the importance of participation, inclusion, as well as strengthened capacities and partnerships.
Related links
Post-2015 negotiations
World We Want website
MY World survey
Millennium Development Goals
Related publications
A Million Voices: The World We Want - A sustainable future
with dignity for all
Delivering the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Building the Post-2015 Development Agenda
17 Feb 2015:China’s success on Millennium Development
Goals provides an example for others to follow for the post-2015 development
agenda, says new UNDP report
08 Jan 2015:Time for Global Action
on Sustainable Development Says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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