And there are several hundred indicators which are being used to measure progress towards achieving the goals and targets. There are also 169 targets that determine whether those goals are met. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t hope to be had - or work to be done. We’re currently 10 years away from the ambitious goal of ending poverty, and there is already concern that we will not meet all of our targets, especially with the added global challenges posed by COVID-19. However, this number had been going steadily down since the 1990s. When the SDGs were launched, approximately 1 billion people were living below the extreme poverty line. Taken on the whole, the big focus of the 2030 agenda is to eradicate global poverty by the end of that year. There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs have taken these drivers into account as barriers to development that must be prioritized. While the MDGs focused on tackling poverty, hunger, and inequality, they didn’t address the root causes of those issues. The United Nations took what worked (and what didn’t!) from the MDGs and used those learnings to form the SDGs. ![]() Originally, the UN and its members signed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2001. ![]() These aren’t the first development goals from the UN. Over 150 world leaders representing 193 countries committed to working towards the SDGs through their policies. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly officially launched the Sustainable Development Goals. Δ The Sustainable Development Goals at a glance
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