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By Dipesh Ghimire

Full List of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Full List of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
➔ Eradicate extreme poverty and ensure social protection for all vulnerable populations.

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
➔ No one should die of hunger; promote sustainable food production.

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
➔ Everyone deserves a life free from disease and access to health services.

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
➔ Education should empower every individual to realize their potential.

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
➔ Eliminate all forms of gender-based discrimination and inequality.

Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
➔ Improve water access and quality sustainably.

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
➔ Promote efficient, clean, and renewable energy systems.

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
➔ Achieve balanced economic growth while ensuring dignified work for all.

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
➔ Strengthen infrastructure, industrialization, and research-driven innovation.

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
➔ Narrow down economic, political, and social inequalities inside countries and globally.

Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
➔ Focus on safe, planned, and resilient urban development.

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
➔ Encourage responsible resource use and sustainable lifestyle practices.

Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
➔ Immediate measures needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
➔ Protect marine ecosystems and ensure their sustainable use.

Goal 15: Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, manage forests sustainably, combat desertification, and halt biodiversity loss.
➔ Safeguard forests, prevent desertification, and protect biodiversity.

Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
➔ Improve governance, justice, transparency, and peace.

Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
➔ Developed countries must help developing ones through aid, knowledge-sharing, and technology.

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