MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: United Nations Announces Goals of “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”

The United Nations recently released the final version of, “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” highlighting 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) with 169 associated targets intended to eradicate poverty by the year 2030. This agenda positions these SDGs to address issues with which the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) did not achieve success, particularly concerning reaching the most vulnerable populations [1]. The MDGs were eight goals established by the United Nations in 2000 with the aim of addressing extreme poverty by 2015.

The first of the 17 SDGs is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” [1]. One “target” within this goal is that United Nations will aim to “ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance,” [1]. Information on what programs will be implemented to achieve these goals has not been disclosed at this time.

The SDGs will be announced officially at the United Nations Headquarters in New York during the 70th session of the UN General Assembly from September 25-27.

By Meredith Steih, Research Associate

Sources and Additional Information

[1] United Nations, “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/7891TRANSFORMING%20OUR%20WORLD.pdf

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