Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Development has been undersigned the 25th of September 2015 by the 193 countries of the United Nations, to share the effort in guaranteeing a better present and a better future to our planet and to the people living in it.
The global leader put effort in a common action through a political agenda, wide and universal.
Every government will decide how these ambitious and global goals will be incorporated in the processes, in the politics, and in the strategies of national planification.
The Agenda follows goals and principles of the United Nation’s Paper, which is founded on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the Millennial Declaration.
The Agenda defines 17 Sustainable Development Goals to reach by 2030, and 169 achievements linked to them.
The goals are universally applicative, by taking into consideration the different capacities of the nations and state priority.
Each country must put effort in defining its own Sustainable Development strategy which enables to reach the SDGs, and to report its own results to the ONU.
It is essential the involvement of the public sector, of a civil society, of the philanthropic institutions, of the universities and research facilities.
Ban Ki-moon, ex United Nation General Secretary, has affirmed that: “The new Agenda is a promise from the leaders and for all the people of the world. It is an Agenda for the people, to eradicate the poverty in all its forms, an Agenda for the planet, for our home”.
The 5 key points on which is based the Agenda 2030 are:
People: to delete hunger and poverty in all its form, guaranteeing dignity and equality;
Planet: to protect the natural sources and manage them in a sustainable way.
The economic, social, and technological progress must take place harmonically with nature;
Peace: to promote pacific, right, and inclusive societies that will be free from fear and violence;
Collaboration: to implement the Agenda through a Global Collaboration for the Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of global solidarity, particularly focused on needs from the poorest and most vulnerable people.
17 Sustainable Development Goals are:
- Goal 1. To put an end in every form of poverty among the world:
By 2030 the goal will be the one of putting an end to the extreme poverty in all the world, ensure that all the men and women have equal rights to economic sources;
- Goal 2. To put an end to hunger, to reach food safety, to improve nutrition and to promote a sustainable agriculture;
It must be guaranteed a safe access to nourishing food, to avoid all the forms of bad-nutrition. Moreover, the food production systems must be sustainable, in such a way to protect ecosystems;
- Goal 3. To ensure health and welfare to anyone, and to all the ages:
One of the sub-goals is the one of reducing the global maternal mortality rate. It is fundamental to put an end to expected deaths of kids and babies, supporting the research and the development of vaccines and medications, to enforce the prevention and the treatment of substances’ abuse, and to increase fundings addressed to health-care;
- Goal 4. To furnish an equal, qualitative, and inclusive education to everyone:
Primary and secondary education must bring to adequate and concrete learning outcomes for all the girls and boys without gender disparity;
- Goal 5. To reach gender equality and to emancipate all the women and girls:
To put an end to every form of discrimination and violence towards women and girls, both in the private and public sphere;
- Goal 6. To guarantee to everyone the availability and the sustainable management of the water and of the sanitation facilities;
To obtain universal and equal access to drink water, which must be safe and economic for everyone.
- Goal 7. To ensure to everyone access to energetic economic, trustable, sustainable, and modern systems;
Particularly it is important to increase considerably the sustainable energy amounts of the total consume of energy;
- Goal 8. To incentive a durative, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, a full-time and productive occupation to everyone;
To support the pro-capital economic growth, the efficiency in the consume and production of resources, and trying to disconnect the economic growth that favours the environmental degradation;
- Goal 9. To build a residential infrastructure and to promote an equal, responsible, and sustainable innovation and industrialization;
By 2030 it is necessary to implement qualitative, trustable, and sustainable infrastructures to support the economic development and the common welfare;
- Goal 10. To reduce inequality into and between nations:
To ensure social, economic, political inclusion to everyone, and beside age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, and economic state;
- Goal 11. To render cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, durative, and sustainable:
To implement an inclusive and sustainable implementation. It is fundamental to ensure to everyone the possibility to have access to safe and adequate places;
- Goal 12. To guarantee sustainable production and consume models:
Thanks to the implementation of the Quadro Decennale di Programmi per il Consumo and the Sustainable Production it is possible for the sustainable managing and the efficient usage of the natural resources.;
- Goal 13. To promote actions, in every level, at every level, to fight climate change:
To improve education, the sensibilisation on themes inherent to climate change;
- Goal 14. To preserve and utilise in a durative way oceans, seas, and natural resources for the sustainable development:
To avoid and reduce significantly every form of marine pollution to protect the marine ecosystem;
- Goal 15. To protect, repristinate, and favour a more sustainable use of the terrestrial ecosystem:
To ensure the conservation and the sustainable usage of terrestrial ecosystems in line with duties that came from international agreements;
- Goal 16. To promote pacific and inclusive societies for the sustainable development:
To reduce in a significant way every form of violence and the mortality rate. To put an end to abuse, exploitation, and child trafficking. To promote the state of right to a national and international level;
- Goal 17. To enforce the mediums of implementation and to renovate the global planetary for the sustainable development.
To succeed, the Agenda for the sustainable development requires planetaries between governments, private sector, and civil society.