Strategies to minimise the impact of climate change
The United Nations Sustainable Development Global Goals
In 2015, the The successor to the League of Nations, the United Nations was established in 1945 as an international organisation designed to keep peace, uphold international law and set standards in human rights. agreed a set of 17 A set of targets agreed by the United Nations that were aimed at ending poverty around the world, helping to protect the planet and ensuring a new prosperity for everyone. that are focussed on ending poverty around the world, protecting the planet and ensuring a new prosperity for everyone.
The 鈥楪lobal Goals鈥 include over 169 targets that ensure that all of the countries of the world work to protect the planet.
The range of the goals show that world leaders are agreed on the importance of making big changes to the world, as each of these goals are to be applied universally to all countries.
The goals are aimed at stimulating action across the world by 2030 to address the following areas:
- People - to end poverty and hunger in all of its forms so that people are able to fulfil their true potential in dignity and equality
- Planet - to protect the planet from degradation and to make sure that the world becomes increasingly sustainable by managing its natural resources carefully
- Prosperity - to ensure that all people are able to lead prosperous lives in harmony with nature
- Peace - to ensure that peaceful societies are free from fear and violence
- Partnership - to mobilise the means and money to support this agenda