In 2015, the United Nations established 17 interconnected Sustainable Development Goals that need to be achieved by 2030 to produce a better future for our globe. Each goal addresses the following global challenges:
- Poverty
- Inequality
- Climate change
- Environmental degradation
- Peace and
- Justice
- Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- Goal 2: Zero Hunger
- Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Goal 4: Quality Education
- Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
- Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy
- Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth and employment
- Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
- Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation
- Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
- Goal 17: Revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development
