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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
the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
 In June 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than
178 countries adopted Agenda 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
the Millennium Summit in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New
York. The Summit led to the elaboration of eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
 The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the
Plan of Implementation, adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable
Development in 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 the United 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 the UN 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-member Open Working
Group to develop a proposal on the SDGs.
 In January 2015, the General Assembly began the negotiation process
on the post-2015 development agenda. The process culminated in the
subsequent adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, with 17 SDGs at its core, at the UN Sustainable
Development Summit in 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
Development with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the UN
Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September
2015.
 Paris Agreement on Climate Change (December 2015)
 Now, the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and
review of the SDGs.
Today, the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) in the United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) provides
substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their related
thematic issues,
including water, energy, climate, oceans, urbanization, transport, science
and technology, the Global Sustainable Development Report
(GSDR), partnerships and Small 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.
Follow DSDG on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sustdev and on Twitter
at @SustDev.

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