Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Sustainable Development for People and Planet by 2030, UN adopts new Global Goals.

Agenda 30. Build upon Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). End poverty in all its forms, UNGA agenda for the planet, common home.
The 193-Member United Nations General Assembly has formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed these alongwith a new set of Global Goals as a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world.
The film 'The Earth From Space' was screened, UN Goodwill Ambassadors Shakira and Angelique Kidjo performed, female education advocate and the youngest-ever Nobel Laureate, Malala Yousafzai made a call for action.

Find photos of delegations and participants at the opening of the UN Sustainable Development Summit.
Mr. Ban urged the world leaders to successfully implement the Global Goals or Agenda 30. He stressed on partnership and commitment and leaving no one behind.
General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft called the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development “ambitious” in confronting the injustices of poverty, marginalization and discrimination. He spoke about inequalities and changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production
UN Economic and Social Council President (ECOSOC) Oh Joon was ready - “The Economic and Social Council stands ready to kick-start the work on the new agenda”.

UNGA has adopted Agenda 30, the 2030 agenda for sustainable development at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, and a new set of Global Goals as a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world. There are 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change. The Goals aim to build on the work of the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000
UNGA has adopted Agenda 30, the 2030 agenda for sustainable development at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit,
and a new set of Global Goals as a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world.
There are 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change.
The Goals aim to build on the work of the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000.
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"... It is an agenda for people, to end poverty in all its forms – an agenda for the planet, our common home,” declared Mr. Ban as he opened the UN Sustainable Development Summit ..."
"... The UN chief’s address came ahead of the Assembly’s formal adoption of the new framework, Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is composed of 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years.
The Goals aim to build on the work of the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which in September 2000, rallied the world around a common 15-year agenda to tackle the indignity of poverty. ..."
"... “We must engage all actors, as we did in shaping the Agenda. We must include parliaments and local governments, and work with cities and rural areas. We must rally businesses and entrepreneurs. We must involve civil society in defining and implementing policies – and give it the space to hold us to account. We must listen to scientists and academia. We will need to embrace a data revolution. Most important, we must set to work – now,” added the Secretary-General. ..."
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