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SDG Targets

1: No Poverty

1.1 Eradicate extreme poverty

1.2 Reduce at least half of those living in their national definition of poverty

1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems

1.4 Equal rights to economic resources and property and land ownership

1.5 Build resilience of those in poverty to climate, economic and social shocks and disasters

1.a Mobilisation from a variety of sources for enhanced development cooperation

1.b Create sound policy multi-level frameworks based on pro-poor and gender sensitive development strategy.

 

2: Zero Hunger

2.1 End hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food year round

2.2 End all forms of malnutrition (with focus on children under 5, adolescent girls, pregnant and breastfeeding women and older persons)

2.3 Double agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers

2.4 Sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices for maintenance of ecosystems

2.5 Genetic diversity of seeds, plants and animals

2.a Investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services

2.b Correct and prevent trade distortions and restrictions in world agricultural markets

2.c Measures to ensure proper functioning of food commodity markets to limit food price volatility

 

3: Good Health and Wellbeing

3.1 Reduce maternal mortality to >70 in 100,000 live births

3.2 End preventable deaths of children under 5

3.3 End the epidemics of AIDS, TB, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and communicable diseases

3.4 Reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by a third

3.5 Strengthen prevention and treatment of substance abuse

3.6 Halve number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents

3.7 Universal access to sexual and reproductive health services

3.8 Universal health coverage, financial risk protection, essential health services, medicines and vaccines

3.9 Reduce deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals, and air, water and soil pollution and contamination

3.a Strengthen implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

3.b Research and development of vaccines and medicines for diseases which primarily affect developing nations

3.c Health financing and the recruitment, development and training and retention of health workers in developing nations

3.d Strengthen capacity for early warning and risk reduction and management of health risks

 

4: Quality Education

4.1 Complete access to free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education

4.2 Quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education

4.3 Equality of access for affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education

4.4 Increase number of those with relevant skills (incl tech and vocational) for employment and entrepreneurship

4.5 Eliminate gender disparities and guarantee equal access to education for disabled persons, indigenous persons and vulnerable children

4.6 Literacy and numeracy for all youth and substantial proportion of adults

4.7 Ensure learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development

4.a Build and upgrade educational facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive (safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning spaces)

4.b Expand the number of scholarships available to developing countries

4.c Increase the supply of qualified teachers through international cooperation for teacher training

 

5: Gender Equality

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against women and girls

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence and exploitation against women and girls

5.3 Elimination of harmful practices (FGM and child, early and forced marriage)

5.4 Recognise unpaid care and domestic work, through public services, infrastructure and social protection policies

5.5 Women’s involvement in decision making and leadership

5.6 Universal access to sexual and reproductive rights

5.a Reforms to give women equal access to economic resources and ownership

5.b Enabling technology to promote women’s empowerment

5.c Sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality

 

6: Clean Water and Sanitation

6.1 Universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water

6.2 Adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end to open defecation with focus on women’s needs.

6.3 Improved water quality, reducing pollution, dumping and hazardous chemicals

6.4 Increase water-use efficiency and reduce water scarcity

6.5 Implement integrated water resources management at all levels

6.6 Protect and restore water related ecosystems

6.a Expand international cooperation and capacity building for water and sanitation projects in developing nations

6.b Support local communities in improving water and sanitation management

 

7: Affordable and Clean Energy

7.1 Universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services

7.2 Substantial increase in renewable energy

7.3 Double global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

7.a International cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology

7.b Expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for modern and sustainable energy in developing nations

 

8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

8.1 Sustain GDP growth in accordance with national circumstances

8.2 Higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation (focus on high-value added and labour intensive areas)

8.3 Support job creation, entrepreneurship, innovation and enterprise in developing nations

8.4 Global resource efficiency in consumption and production

8.5 Full and productive employment for all with equal pay for work of equal value

8.6 Substantially reduce proportion of NEET youth

8.7 Eradicate forced labour, slavery and human trafficking (incl. ending child labour by 2025)

8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe working for all workers, particularly female migrant workers

8.9 Sustainable tourism promoting local culture and products

8.10 Access to banking, insurance and financial services

8.a Increased aid for trade support for developing countries

8.b Global strategy for youth unemployment by 2020 and implementation of the Global Jobs Pact of the ILO

 

9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

9.1 Quality, reliable, resilient and sustainable infrastructure

9.2 Inclusive and sustainable industrialisation

9.3 Increased access of small scale industrial and other enterprises to financial services including affordable credit

9.4 Upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, including clean technology

9.5 Increase number of research and development workers per one million in developing nations with increased technological capabilities

9.a Financial, technological and technical support for the building of sustainable and resilient infrastructure in developing nations

9.b Support for domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries

9.c Increase access to ICT with universal and affordable access to the internet

 

10: Reduced Inequalities

10.1 Achieve and sustain income growth for bottom 40% above the national average rate

10.2 Empower and promote social, economic and political inclusion for all

10.3 Equal opportunity and reduced inequalities of outcome and the ending of discriminating laws

10.4 Fiscal, wage and social protection policies

10.5 Regulation of global financial markets and institutions

10.6 Enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision making in global economic and financial institutions

10.7 Planned and well managed migration policies to make migration orderly, safe, regular and responsible

10.a Principle of special and differential treatment for developing nations, particularly least developed countries

10.b Official development assistance and financial flows, including FDI, to states where the need is greatest

10.c Reduce the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with <5% costs

 

11: Sustainable cities and communities

11.1 Adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services including the upgrade of slums

11.2 Safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems with special focus on the access of vulnerable persons

11.3 Inclusive and sustainable urbanisation and participatory human settlement planning and management

11.4 Protect cultural and natural heritage

11.5 Reduction of number of deaths and direct economic loss relative to GDP of disasters

11.6 Reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities (air quality, waste management etc.)

11.7 Universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible green and public spaces, particularly for vulnerable people

11.a Positive economic, social and environmental links between urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning

11.b Increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting disaster risk management and resource efficiency plans

11.c Support low income states in building sustainable and resilient buildings with local materials

 

12: Responsible Consumption and Production

12.1 Implement 10-year framework of programmes of sustainable consumption and production

12.2 Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

12.3 Halve per capita food waste at retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains

12.4 Environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes through their life cycle within international frameworks (reduction of their release into the air, water and soil)

12.5 Reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

12.6 Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices and integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle

12.7 Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable in accordance with national policy

12.8 Universal access to information and awareness of sustainable development and lifestyles

12.a Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards sustainable patterns of production and consumption

12.b Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism

12.c Disincentivise fossil fuel use and subsidies, including tax and market distortions

 

13: Climate Action

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related hazards and disasters

13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, planning and strategy

13.3 Improve education and human and institutional capacity on mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.a Implement the commitment to mobilising $100 billion annually to address the needs of developing countries (Green Climate Fund and UNFCCC)

13.b Raise capacity for effective climate planning and management in low-income states and Small Island Developing States with focus on women, youth and marginalised communities

 

14: Life Below Water

14.1 Prevent and reduce marine pollution

14.2 Strengthen resilience and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems

14.3 Minimise and address the impacts of ocean acidification

14.4 Regulate harvesting and end overfishing, with science-based management plans

14.5 Conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas

14.6 Prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overfishing

14.7 Increase economic benefits to SIDS and LDCs for sustainable use of marine resources

14.a Increase scientific knowledge, research capacity and marine technology

14.b Access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets

14.c Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources through the implementation of international law

 

15: Life on Land

15.1 Ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems

15.2 Promote implementation of sustainable management of forests, end deforestation, restore degraded forests and increase afforestation and reforestation

15.3 Combat desertification and create land degradation-neutral world

15.4 Conservation of mountain ecosystems and biodiversity

15.5 Urgent, significant action to reduce degradation of habitats and biodiversity loss and protect and prevent extinction of threatened species

15.6 Fair and equitable share of benefits of genetic resources

15.7 End poaching and trafficking of protected species of plants and animals and address supply and demand of illegal wildlife products

15.8 Measures to prevent introduction and impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems

15.9 Integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning and development and policy reduction strategies

15.a Mobilise and increase financial resources to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems

15.b Mobilise resources to finance sustainable forest management and incentivise developing countries to advance conservation and reforestation policies

15.c Enhance global support for anti-poaching and trafficking of species

 

16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

16.1 Reduce all forms of violence and related deaths

16.2 End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence against children

16.3 Promote the rule of law and ensure equal access to justice

16.4 Reduce illicit financial and arms flows, organised crime and strengthen recovery and return of stolen assets

16.5 Reduce corruption and bribery

16.6 Effective, accountable and transparent institutions

16.7 Responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision making

16.8 Strengthen and expand participation of developing nations in institutions of global governance

16.9 Legal identity for all including birth registration

16.10 Public access to information and protection of fundamental freedoms

16.a Strengthen national institutions for building capacity to prevent violence, terrorism and crime through international cooperation

16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory policies for sustainable development

 

17: Partnerships for the Goals

17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilisation, including international support to improve the domestic capacity of developing nations for tax and revenue collection

17.2 Developed countries to fully implement official development assistance commitments

17.3 Mobilise additional financial resources for developing countries

17.4 Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through debt financing, debt relief and restructuring

17.5 Implement investment promotion regimes for low-income states

17.6 Enhance regional and international cooperation and knowledge sharing and access to science, technology and innovation

17.7 Development and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies, including through concessional and preferential terms to developing countries

17.8 Fully operationalise the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity building mechanism for low-income states

17.9 Enhance international support for the implementation of effective and targeted capacity building for developing countries

17.10 Universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under WTO

17.11 Increase exports of developing countries, doubling low-income states share of global exports

17.12 Timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for low-income states

17.13 Enhance macroeconomic stability through policy coordination and coherence

17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

17.15 Respect each nations policy space and leadership to establish policy eradication and sustainable development policies

17.16 Enhance the global market for sustainable development complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilise knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources

17.17 Promote effective public, private and civil society partnerships

17.18 Enhance capacity building support to developing countries to improve availability of data about demographics and SDGs

17.19 Build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress that support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

To the left is a summarised outline of the UN Sustainable Development Goals targets. Those highlighted in bold may be of particular relevance to researchers at Warwick.
More information about the seventeen SDG's, and the full explanations targets and their associated indicators can be found here: THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development (un.org)