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what are the SDGs? In 2015 world leaders from 193 countries agreed the sustainable development
goals or SDGs. It’s the world's new action plan for the next 15 years to eradicate extreme poverty
and hunger, fight inequality, tackle climate change and achieve sustainable development for all.
The SDGs followed the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs agreed in 2000 in a global
coordinated attempt to tackle development issues. As a result the number of people living in
extreme poverty has declined by more than half compared to 1990, more girls and boys go to
primary school than ever before and far more people have access to water and essential medicines.
But progress of the MDGs has been mixed. Today over 800 million people still live in extreme
poverty. They are also most vulnerable to the increasing impacts from climate change and
environmental degradation. Years of hard-won progress fighting poverty could easily be wiped out
by even small conflicts, economic crises or natural disasters. Also sub-saharan Africa and southern
Asia consistently achieved less progress than other regions. The MDGs measured success on
national averages often missing what happened with marginalized groups, like people with
disabilities, indigenous groups, rural communities and women. The international community
recognized the new challenges and that human prosperity must go hand in hand with protecting the
planet. After a three-year participatory process world leaders finally adopted 17 sustainable
development goals. So what are these goals for? They are fighting against poverty, freedom
from hunger, health and well-being, quality of education, gender equality, clean water and
sanitation, sustainable energy for all, decent work and economic development, innovation and
resilient infrastructure, reducing inequalities, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable
consumption and production , action on climate change, healthy oceans, sustainable
ecosystems, peace and justice, global partnerships. There are four underlying principles that
come with the SDGs and that are transformational in the way we work and development in the
future. Firstly the SDGs are UNIVERSAL they apply to every country rich and poor north and
south developed and developing. They recognize the global challenges, like tackling climate
change and changing models of development require global solutions. Domestic policies that look
at these issues in one country will have an impact on other parts of the world so we need to
coordinate. Secondly they integrate all dimensions of SUSTAINABILITY, economic
development , social progress and Environmental Protection . For example they tell us to grow in
our food for all without destroying the soil, using water to develop our economies without
increasing inequality or to produce enough electricity for all without pumping more co2 into the
atmosphere. This is similar to what Pope Francis says in his encyclical: we are faced not with two
separate crises , one environmental and the other social but rather with one complex crisis which is
both social and environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to
combating poverty , restoring dignity to the excluded and at the same time protecting nature . The
SDGs tell us we should LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND. Governments have agreed no goal should be
met unless it is met for everyone including those in society most vulnerable and hardest to reach.So
education must reach indigenous communities , jobs created for women and men , quality health
care , available for all rural communities and water and sanitation facilities accessible for people
living with disabilities, tackling exclusion is the key to tackling inequality . Finally the SDGs
require the PARTICIPATION OF ALL. The process to agree the SDGs took years and included
national dialogues, consultations with civil society groups , the private sector and academia and
ended with negotiations between all governments at the UN. There's a strong sense of ownership of
these goals.The result is ambitious but it reflects what the world wants today . The implementation
of the SDGs requires ongoing participation at a national and local level. All stakeholders have a role
towards their successful achievement taken together with the Paris climate change agreement and
the Pope's encyclical laudato sii. The SDGs provide a new framework for approaching sustainable
development.

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