Introduction ODS

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Introduction

Sustainable Development Goals

These challenges are complex and interdependent, i.e. economic activities cause environmental impacts, and, on the other hand, the degradation of the quality of the environment also generates impacts on the economy and society.

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Environmental Challenges

Socioeconomic Challenges

Today's world is facing unprecedented global environmental and socio-economic challenges!

Although there is a global consensus on the need to achieve sustainable development, it is considered a vague concept, subject to different interpretations and difficult to operationalise.

Everything isinterconnected!

Sustainable development is a concept that arises to seek to clarify the interconnections between the economy, society and the environment. According to the Brundtland report, this concept is defined as: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ".

Sustainable development

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To try to overcome these global challenges and create a common action plan for all countries, the UN created the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The SDGs resulted from a large-scale intergovernmental dialogue process involving 193 countries and many civil society organisations worldwide. At the end of this process, 17 goals, 169 targets and 304 indicators were established. These SDGs are a key element of the 2030 Agenda - Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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The world is complex and we are interdependent! There is a fundamental political and collective action to fulfil the 2030 Agenda, but it also depends on the individual dimension - in the exercise of the right to vote; in the choices of our daily lives; in active listening and valuing different voices and knowledge; in initiatives to call decision-makers to account at different levels: local, national and international; in our school, and organisation.

Conclusion

This Agenda was built on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These were adopted by the members of the United Nations and were in force between 2000 and 2015, consisting of eight goals: