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Implementation of the SDGs started worldwide in 2016. This process can also be called Localizing the SDGs. In 2019 António Guterres (secretary-general of the United Nations) issued a global call for a Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. [112] This decade will last from 2020 to 2030.
Sustainable development is the foundational concept of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [7] These global goals for the year 2030 were adopted in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). They address the global challenges, including for example poverty, climate change, biodiversity loss, and peace.
This List of SDG targets and indicators provides a complete overview of all the targets and indicators for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [1][2] The global indicator framework for Sustainable Development Goals was developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) and agreed upon at the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission held in March 2017.
For a few years, the text of the goals was further developed through an open working group. In 2015, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the SDGs. [5] She recounts her experience of trying to push the SDGs to the United Nations in her book, Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals. [7]
The United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), previously the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), is a group of 36 United Nations funds, programmes, specialized agencies, departments and offices that play a role in development.
In 2019, there was a report on how Ghana was developing a strategy for targeted SDGs tracking and budgeting and also involving the SDG Impact Investment ecosystem in the financing of the SDGs, four years into its implementation. [17] A coalition called for the redoubling of efforts to achieve the water and sanitation targets of the SDGs. [18]
A report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) of 2013 stated that the emphasis of the SDGs should not be on ending poverty by 2030, but on eliminating hunger and under-nutrition by 2025. [20] The assertion is based on an analysis of experiences in China, Vietnam, Brazil, and Thailand.
Most SDGs are either set to be reached by 2020 or 2030. While SDG 8, is due in 2030 target 8.6 has already expired in 2020. In 2019, "22 per cent of the world's young people were not in employment, education or training, a figure that has hardly changed since 2005". [14]