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History

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including theUN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

• In June 1992, at theEarth Summitin Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adoptedAgenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.
• Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at theMillennium Summitin September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York. The Summit led to the elaboration of eightMillennium Development Goals (MDGs)to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
• The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at theWorld Summit on Sustainable Developmentin South Africa in 2002, reaffirmed the global community's commitments to poverty eradication and the environment, and built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration by including more emphasis on multilateral partnerships.
• At theUnited Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document"The Future We Want"in which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs and to establish theUN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The Rio +20 outcome also contained other measures for implementing sustainable development, including mandates for future programmes of work in development financing, small island developing states and more.
• In 2013, the General Assembly set up a 30-memberOpen Working Groupto develop a proposal on the SDGs.
• In January 2015, the General Assembly began the negotiation process on thepost-2015 development agenda. The process culminated in the subsequent adoption of the2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with17 SDGsat its core, at theUN Sustainable Development Summitin September 2015.
• 2015 was a landmark year for multilateralism and international policy shaping, with the adoption of several major agreements:
  • Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction(March 2015)
  • Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development(July 2015)
  • Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentwith its 17 SDGs was adopted at theUN Sustainable Development Summitin New York in September 2015.
  • Paris Agreement on Climate Change(December 2015)
• Now, the annualHigh-level Political Forum on Sustainable Developmentserves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.

Today, theDivision for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)in the United NationsDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)provides substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their related thematic issues, includingwater,energy,climate,oceans,urbanization,transport,science and technology, theGlobal Sustainable Development Report (GSDR),partnershipsandSmall Island Developing States. DSDG plays a key role in the evaluation of UN systemwide implementation of the 2030 Agenda and on advocacy and outreach activities relating to the SDGs. In order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement.

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Implementation Progress

Every year, the UN Secretary General presents an annual SDG Progress report, which is developed in cooperation with the UN System, and based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national statistical systems and information collected at the regional level.

Please, check below information about the SDG Progress Report:

• SDG Progress Report (2024)
• SDG Progress Report (2023)
• SDG Progress Report (2022)
• SDG Progress Report (2021)
• SDG Progress Report (2020)
• SDG Progress Report (2019)
• SDG Progress Report (2018)
• SDG Progress Report (2017)
• SDG Progress Report (2016)

Please, check here for information about SDG indicators and reports: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs#

Additionally, the Global Sustainable Development Report is produced once every four years to inform the quadrennial SDG review deliberations at the General Assembly. It is written by an Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the Secretary-General.

• Global Sustainable Development Report (2019)
• Global Sustainable Development Report (2023)

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