17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations Member States They committed to the 2030 Agenda Action Planwith the main purpose of ensuring the protection and prosperity of people and the environment. It is one of the most ambitious driven climate action plans.

In 2015, after Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that had been agreed in 2000, the UN created the new agreement of the 2030 Agenda. This agreement was signed by the 193 Member States and Combat 17 Sustainable Development Goalscomposed of 169 goals to endorse. These purposes must be focused both internally in each country, as well as globally.

When fulfilling its objectives, it is intended to guarantee both economic and social development, responding to an ecofeminist social justice that addresses all ages. Many of the objectives are closely related since to meet it it is necessary to meet another. For example, to ensure that cities and human settlements are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (objective 11); Equality between genres and empowering all women and girls must be achieved (Objective 5); In addition to adopting urgent measures to combat climate change and its effects (Objective 13) since those who will suffer will be the people who are in a more vulnerable situation.

Get achieved OD Goals It implies responsibility, active participation and commitment of the three government orders: public administration, private sector and civil society. Each sector must be aware and take responsibility to achieve it.

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Achieving this goal implies guaranteeing a Sustainable Social Justice By decreasing the economic inequality. According to the UN, the number of people who are in a situation of Extrem povertyto. Which means that still 700 million people continue to live in poverty, with problems to meet their basic needs.

In Spain, the Association of Environmental Sciences (ACA) has calculated that 11% of Spanish households are in a situation of energy poverty. We also encourage you to read this other article in which you will see 5 recycling projects against poverty.

About 135 million people suffer severe hungeraccording to the World Food Program. To achieve one Food security It is necessary to encourage both agrarian and food reform that does not overexploote and degrade the environment. This approach also helps to continue extracting food resources in a time.

Without this principle, it is difficult to reach the rest of the SDGs, so it is one of the bases. One of the great advances that have been obtained is having extended the life expectancy and have Reduced infant and maternal mortality.

About 260 million children in 2018 were not schooling. It is still a great task illiterateimprove the status of schools or the preparation of teachers.

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It continues to fight to reduce patriarchal injustice worldwide. Many social laws and norms are still in force so it ends infrarrespeiring women. There are still countries where female ablation is practiced, girls are obliged to marry prematurely, they are excluded from education to take care of the family, ask if they have children or if they are married during work interviews, they are objects of sexual consumption or are infraval, among other facts.

Access to education and empowerment of women and girls will help them decide, reflect and act in making social, political and economic decisions.

It is still a problem worldwide access drinking and safe water. Thousands of people continue to die from diseases associated with the pathogens present in the water. The lack of systems and sanitation measures generates that some water sources be contaminated.

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The Clean or green energies They have to be more accessible to all, as they are necessary both for Avoid increasing climate changeas to reduce environmental pollution and mitigate pollution associated with pollution, the energy model based on fossil resources must be changed. In addition, much of the world’s population cannot carry out their basic needs due to the lack of Energy accessibilitylimiting their opportunities.

Here you can learn more about what are clean or green energies and the importance of clean energy for the environment.

Millions of people work in an ultra precarious and unworthy situationwhose health and dignity are lost by earning some money to survive in a bad way, so it ends up being a subsistence economy. In addition, in most places the most precarious works are always carried out by women and girls.

Achieve one Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable Industrialization It is everyone’s task when putting knowledge in common and changing the turns. Northern countries must facilitate trade to the countries of the South through economic measures such as the reduction of tariffs, since those in the south are generally poorer than those of the north or their wealth are worse distributed, or even absorbed by other countries.

Given the same problem such as climate change or COVID-19, the countries of the north and those of the South will face differently due to the inequalities that exist between them, generally, generating advantages in the countries of the north and disadvantages in those of the south. Even within the same country there are very pronounced social inequalities.

All space must be safe and inclusive For all the people who form it in addition to ensuring respect for the environment and the health of its inhabitants.

There are great migrations to cities due to rural exodus, the lack of employment in these ends up making it difficult for the quality of life and dumbling the social, economic and gender inequalities.

The style of uncontrolled consumption and production of the last century has generated the great environmental problems: climate change, lack of resources, pollution of ecosystems, loss of biodiversity … It must be focused through a more sustainable model with a vision of Circular and local economy.

They are already living devastating effects associated with climate change And it is estimated that if it is not possible to reach the objectives of the Paris Agreement of not exceeding the two global degrees, the environmental catastrophes will be more severe and irreversible, in addition to affecting those people who have less resources to face.

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You must end the uncontrolled overweightthe presence of plastics in the seathe increase in the acidification of the oceans and pollution, both to be able to preserve their biodiversity and to continue living from the oceans.

A year, 13 million hectares of forests can be destroyed for industrial, agriculture and livestock exploitation, promoting desertification. In addition to causing Biodiversity lossesgenerates People’s displacements that live in them, such as Batwa de Burundi or the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.

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For this Continue to fight culturally To end xenophobia, machismo, homophobia, aporophobia, gerontophobia, fatophobia, child abuse, sexual abuse, etc., as well as continue with the creation of more suitable spaces for people with functional diversity.

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If it is sought not to stay in empty words, there must be an understanding and understanding between the sectors involved as, Governments, private companies and citizensworldwide.

After learning about the different objectives pursued by the 2030 Agenda (the SDGs), we love you to discover more about sustainable development: definition and examples with this post. In addition, we also recommend reading these other articles on the advantages and disadvantages of sustainable development and the difference between sustainable and sustainable development.

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