QUE: What is sustainable development? Give detailed information about the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainable development means development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations. The goals set to achieve such sustainable development are called Sustainable Development Goals.

             In the year 2015, 17 “Sustainable Development Goals” were set for the period 2016 to 2030 at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. Member countries are not obliged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

• Sustainable Development Goals

1. Eradicate poverty: Eradicate poverty at all levels throughout the world

2. Eradicate hunger: Promote food security, sustainable agriculture to eradicate hunger.

3. Good health and standard of living: Promote well-being for all and at all levels. Ensuring healthy lives for all

4. Quality education: Promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all by ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education

5. Gender equality: Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls in all sectors.

6. Clean water and sanitation: Ensuring access to clean water, sanitation and sustainable water management for all.

7. Affordable and clean energy: Ensuring affordable, accessible, sustainable and affordable energy for all.

8. Decent work and economic growth: Promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth and ensuring access to productive and employable work for all.

9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure development: Promoting resilient infrastructure, inclusive and sustainable industrialization and innovation.

10.Reducing inequalities: Reducing inequalities that persist between and within countries.

11. Sustainable urban and community development: Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

12. Responsible production and consumption: Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns.

13. Climate change: Ensuring urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

14. Life below water: Ensuring the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

15. Life on land: Promoting sustainable use of ecosystems, protected forests, preventing land degradation and striving to halt the increasing loss of biodiversity.

16. Institutions for peace and justice: Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development and ensuring access to justice for all.

17. Collective partnership to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development and strengthening the means of implementation.               


              Thus, sustainable development based on natural resources will lead to truly long-term economic growth, meeting the needs of present and future generations.