Getting to know the SDGs
Getting to know the SDGs The SDGs follow on from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which aimed to address the basic needs of the world’s poorest countries from 2000–15. However, unlike the MDGs, the SDGs cover all countries as it is not possible to ensure a fair, sustainable future without considering the needs of all people, and global natural resources and environments.
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he SDGs are anchored in the principles of
1) protecting and promoting human rights and environmental rights, which underpin the possibility for dignity, peace and sustainable development; 2) equality, as reducing inequalities is essential for protecting and promoting human rights, and tackling discrimination and exclusion; and 3) sustainability, through a long-term perspective to accommodate intergenerational equity, justice and a world fit for present and future generations.7 Importantly, the SDGs follow a principle of 4) ‘leave no-one behind’.
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See https://whc.unesco.org/en/sustainabledevelopment/
