New Sustainable Development Goals | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

On 2 August 2015, a new agenda was agreed upon by 193 Member States of the United Nations that is set to end poverty by 2030. This ambitious agenda will be adopted in September by world leaders at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York. Seventeen new sustainable development goals are included in the agenda that aim to end poverty, promote prosperity, and people's well-being while protecting the environment by 2030.

UN Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon said the agreement "encompasses a universal, transformative and integrated agenda that heralds a historic turning point for our world." He also went on to say that in the September Summit the new agenda "will chart a new era of Sustainable Development in which poverty will be eradicated, prosperity shared, and the core drivers of climate change tackled."

This new sustainable agenda is building on the success of the Millennium Development Goals which were adopted in 2000 and helped 700 million people escape poverty. The new goals and agenda are set to go even further and address the universal need for sustainable development that can work for every type of community.

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