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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), officially known as Transforming Our World (the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development), are a set of 17 goals established by the United Nations. These goals were outlined in a UN General Assembly resolution of 25 September 2015, and on 1 January 2016, the 17 SDGs were incorporated into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

These broad goals are interconnected, although each has its own specific targets, totaling 169 objectives. The SDGs cover a wide range of social and economic development issues (poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy, the environment, and social justice). While the SDGs are not legally binding, governments take ownership of them and establish national frameworks for their achievement. Therefore, countries bear the primary responsibility for monitoring and reviewing progress. This requires the timely collection of high-quality, accessible data so that regional monitoring and review are based on national analyses, which in turn informs global monitoring and review.

On 19 July 2014, the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals submitted a proposal to the UN General Assembly containing 17 goals and 169 targets covering a wide range of sustainable development issues. These included eradicating poverty and hunger, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting oceans and forests. On 5 December 2014, the Secretary-General of the United Nations General Assembly approved the report on the post-2015 development agenda, based on proposals from the Open Working Group. Intergovernmental negotiations on participation in the post-2015 development agenda began in January 2015 and concluded in August 2015. Following these negotiations, the final Sustainable Development Goals document, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” was adopted on 25–27 September 2015 in New York, USA.

Paragraph 54 of UN resolution A/RES/70/1 of 25 September 2015 outlines the goals and targets. The UN-led process involved its 193 Member States and global civil society. The resolution is a broad intergovernmental agreement that serves as the post-2015 development plan, and the Sustainable Development Goals are based on the principles agreed upon in the resolution entitled “The Future We Want.”