Sustainable Development Goals: the roadmap to the future

The UN rewrites the Millennium Goals. Do you want to know how the next fifteen years will be like?

The future of the world has been redesigned. The United Nations (UN), and by extension the entire population of the planet, face an exciting challenge that seek nothing more, nothing less, ensuring the sustainable development.

How can we carry out such a mission? It is not easy, but the roadmap is well defined and has been revised and enhanced to ensure a worthy existence for all inhabitants of the world and a respectful coexistence with natural resources. So how has these resolutions to save the world changed? Let's travel back in time.

It is year 2000. The UN draws up the Millennium Goals, eight aims to be fulfilled in fifteen years:

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development

Let’s jump in time back to the present day. Those fifteen years have passed, and things have changed in such a way that those eight goals are not enough to cover all the needs of the planet in perspective. That’s why the UN will introduce to the world on the New York Climate Summit (September 25^th-27^th) the Sustainable Development Goals, in which private sector is included as a main character of the social change, and will have a special significance on the XXI Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21, December 2015).

End poverty
End hunger
Ensure healthy lives
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
Achieve gender equality
Ensure availability of water
Ensure access to affordable energy
Promote economic growth
Build resilient infrastructures (adaptable to changes)
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Take action to combat climate change
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies and provide access to justice for all
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership

The term that the UN establishes for these goals is a fifteen-year period. By 2030 we’ll have a new date with the planet, but, will we be victorious? Over the recent years these achievements have been completed, and they are no doubt a great starting point:

- Extreme poverty cut in half, from 36% to 18% We need sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities