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This
Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to
strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the
greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative
partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race
from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are
determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed
to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this
collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17
Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today
demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to
build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not
achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and
indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the
economic, social and environmental.

The
Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of
critical importance for humanity and the planet:

People

We
are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions,
and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and
equality and in a healthy environment.

Planet

We
are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through
sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural
resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support
the needs of the present and future generations.

Prosperity

We
are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and
fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in
harmony with nature.

Peace

We
are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free
from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace
and no peace without sustainable development.

Partnership

We
are determined to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through
a revitalised Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit
of strengthened global solidarity, focussed in particular on the needs of the
poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all
stakeholders and all people.

The
interlinkages and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals are of
crucial importance in ensuring that the purpose of the new Agenda is realised.
If we realize our ambitions across the full extent of the Agenda, the lives of
all will be profoundly improved and our world will be transformed for the
better.

DECLARATION

Introduction

1.
We, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, meeting at the
United Nations Headquarters in New York from 25-27 September 2015 as the
Organization celebrates its seventieth anniversary, have decided today on new
global Sustainable Development Goals.

2. On
behalf of the peoples we serve, we have adopted a historic decision on a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Goals and targets. We commit ourselves to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030. We recognize that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the
greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development. We are committed to achieving sustainable development in its three
dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated
manner. We will also build upon the achievements of the Millennium Development
Goals and seek to address their unfinished business.

3. We
resolve, between now and 2030, to end poverty and hunger everywhere; to combat
inequalities within and among countries; to build peaceful, just and inclusive
societies; to protect human rights and promote gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls; and to ensure the lasting protection of the
planet and its natural resources. We resolve also to create conditions for
sustainable, inclusive and sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and
decent work for all, taking into account different levels of national
development and capacities.

4. As
we embark on this great collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left
behind. Recognizing that the dignity of the human person is fundamental, we
wish to see the Goals and targets met for all nations and peoples and for all
segments of society. And we will endeavour to reach the furthest behind first.

5.
This is an Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance. It is accepted by
all countries and is applicable to all, taking into account different national
realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national
policies and priorities. These are universal goals and targets which involve
the entire world, developed and developing countries alike. They are integrated
and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development.

6.
The Goals and targets are the result of over two years of intensive public
consultation and engagement with civil society and other stakeholders around
the world, which paid particular attention to the voices of the poorest and
most vulnerable. This consultation included valuable work done by the General
Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and by the United
Nations, whose Secretary-General provided a synthesis report in December 2014.

Our vision

7. In
these Goals and targets, we are setting out a supremely ambitious and
transformational vision. We envisage a world free of poverty, hunger, disease
and want, where all life can thrive. We envisage a world free of fear and
violence. A world with universal literacy. A world with equitable and universal
access to quality education at all levels, to health care and social
protection, where physical, mental and social well-being are assured. A world
where we reaffirm our commitments regarding the human right to safe drinking
water and sanitation and where there is improved hygiene; and where food is
sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious. A world where human habitats are
safe, resilient and sustainable and where there is universal access to
affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.

8. We
envisage a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the
rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination; of respect for race,
ethnicity and cultural diversity; and of equal opportunity permitting the full
realization of human potential and contributing to shared prosperity. A world
which invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from
violence and exploitation. A world in which every woman and girl enjoys full
gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their
empowerment have been removed. A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially
inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met.

9. We
envisage a world in which every country enjoys sustained, inclusive and
sustainable economic growth and decent work for all. A world in which
consumption and production patterns and use of all natural resources – from air
to land, from rivers, lakes and aquifers to oceans and seas - are sustainable.
One in which democracy, good governance and the rule of law as well as an
enabling environment at national and international levels, are essential for
sustainable development, including sustained and inclusive economic growth,
social development, environmental protection and the eradication of poverty and
hunger. One in which development and the application of technology are
climate-sensitive, respect biodiversity and are resilient. One in which
humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living
species are protected.

Our shared principles
and commitments

10.
The new Agenda is guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations, including full respect for international law. It is grounded in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties,
the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document. It is
informed by other instruments such as the Declaration on the Right to
Development.

11.
We reaffirm the outcomes of all major UN conferences and summits which have
laid a solid foundation for sustainable development and have helped to shape
the new Agenda. These include the Rio Declaration on Environment and
Development; the World Summit on Sustainable Development; the World Summit for
Social Development; the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action; and the United
Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ("Rio+ 20"). We also
reaffirm the follow-up to these conferences, including the outcomes of the
Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, the Third
International Conference on Small Island Developing States; the Second United
Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries; and the Third UN World
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.

12.
We reaffirm all the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and
Development, including, inter alia, the principle of common but differentiated
responsibilities, as set out in principle 7 thereof.

13.
The challenges and commitments contained in these major conferences and summits
are interrelated and call for integrated solutions. To address them
effectively, a new approach is needed. Sustainable development recognizes that
eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, combatting inequality
within and among countries, preserving the planet, creating sustained,
inclusive and sustainable economic growth and fostering social inclusion are
linked to each other and are interdependent.

Our world today

14.
We are meeting at a time of immense challenges to sustainable development.
Billions of our citizens continue to live in poverty and are denied a life of
dignity. There are rising inequalities within and among countries. There are enormous
disparities of opportunity, wealth and power. Gender inequality remains a key
challenge. Unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, is a major concern.
Global health threats, more frequent and intense natural disasters, spiralling
conflict, violent extremism, terrorism and related humanitarian crises and
forced displacement of people threaten to reverse much of the development
progress made in recent decades. Natural resource depletion and adverse impacts
of environmental degradation, including desertification, drought, land
degradation, freshwater scarcity and loss of biodiversity, add to and
exacerbate the list of challenges which humanity faces. Climate change is one
of the greatest challenges of our time and its adverse impacts undermine the ability
of all countries to achieve sustainable development. Increases in global
temperature, sea level rise, ocean acidification and other climate change
impacts are seriously affecting coastal areas and low-lying coastal countries,
including many least developed countries and small island developing States.
The survival of many societies, and of the biological support systems of the
planet, is at risk.

15.
It is also, however, a time of immense opportunity. Significant progress has
been made in meeting many development challenges. Within the past generation,
hundreds of millions of people have emerged from extreme poverty. Access to
education has greatly increased for both boys and girls. The spread of
information and communications technology and global interconnectedness has
great potential to accelerate human progress, to bridge the digital divide and
to develop knowledge societies, as does scientific and technological innovation
across areas as diverse as medicine and energy.

16.
Almost fifteen years ago, the Millennium Development Goals were agreed. These
provided an important framework for development and significant progress has
been made in a number of areas. But the progress has been uneven, particularly
in Africa, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, and
small island developing States, and some of the MDGs remain off-track, in
particular those related to maternal, newborn and child health and to
reproductive health. We recommit ourselves to the full realization of all the
MDGs, including the off-track MDGs, in particular by providing focussed and
scaled-up assistance to least developed countries and other countries in
special situations, in line with relevant support programmes. The new Agenda
builds on the Millennium Development Goals and seeks to complete what these did
not achieve, particularly in reaching the most vulnerable.

17.
In its scope, however, the framework we are announcing today goes far beyond
the MDGs. Alongside continuing development priorities such as poverty eradication,
health, education and food security and nutrition, it sets out a wide range of
economic, social and environmental objectives. It also promises more peaceful
and inclusive societies. It also, crucially, defines means of implementation.
Reflecting the integrated approach that we have decided on, there are deep
interconnections and many cross-cutting elements across the new Goals and
targets.

The new Agenda

18.
We are announcing today 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 associated
targets which are integrated and indivisible. Never before have world leaders
pledged common action and endeavour across such a broad and universal policy
agenda. We are setting out together on the path towards sustainable
development, devoting ourselves collectively to the pursuit of global
development and of "win-win" cooperation which can bring huge gains
to all countries and all parts of the world. We reaffirm that every State has,
and shall freely exercise, full permanent sovereignty over all its wealth,
natural resources and economic activity. We will implement the Agenda for the
full benefit of all, for today’s generation and for future generations. In
doing so, we reaffirm our commitment to international law and emphasize that
the Agenda is to be implemented in a manner that is consistent with the rights
and obligations of states under international law.

19.
We reaffirm the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as
well as other international instruments relating to human rights and international
law. We emphasize the responsibilities of all States, in conformity with the
Charter of the United Nations, to respect, protect and promote human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind as to race,
colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social
origin, property, birth, disability or other status.

20.
Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a
crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals and targets. The
achievement of full human potential and of sustainable development is not
possible if one half of humanity continues to be denied its full human rights
and opportunities. Women and girls must enjoy equal access to quality
education, economic resources and political participation as well as equal
opportunities with men and boys for employment, leadership and decision-making
at all levels. We will work for a significant increase in investments to close
the gender gap and strengthen support for institutions in relation to gender
equality and the empowerment of women at the global, regional and national
levels. All forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls will
be eliminated, including through the engagement of men and boys. The systematic
mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the Agenda is
crucial.

21.
The new Goals and targets will come into effect on 1 January 2016 and will
guide the decisions we take over the next fifteen years. All of us will work to
implement the Agenda within our own countries and at the regional and global
levels, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels
of development and respecting national policies and priorities We will respect
national policy space for sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth,
in particular for developing states, while remaining consistent with relevant
international rules and commitments. We acknowledge also the importance of the
regional and sub-regional dimensions, regional economic integration and
interconnectivity in sustainable development. Regional and sub-regional
frameworks can facilitate the effective translation of sustainable development
policies into concrete action at national level.

22.
Each country faces specific challenges in its pursuit of sustainable
development. The most vulnerable countries and, in particular, African
countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small
island developing states deserve special attention, as do countries in
situations of conflict and post-conflict countries. There are also serious
challenges within many middle-income countries.

23.
People who are vulnerable must be empowered. Those whose needs are reflected in
the Agenda include all children, youth, persons with disabilities (of whom more
than 80% live in poverty), people living with HIV/AIDS, older persons,
indigenous peoples, refugees and internally displaced persons and migrants. We
resolve to take further effective measures and actions, in conformity with
international law, to remove obstacles and constraints, strengthen support and
meet the special needs of people living in areas affected by complex
humanitarian emergencies and in areas affected by terrorism.

24.
We are committed to ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including
by eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. All people must enjoy a basic standard
of living, including through social protection systems. We are also determined
to end hunger and to achieve food security as a matter of priority and to end
all forms of malnutrition. In this regard, we reaffirm the important role and
inclusive nature of the Committee on World Food Security and welcome the Rome
Declaration on Nutrition and Framework for Action. We will devote resources to
developing rural areas and sustainable agriculture and fisheries, supporting
smallholder farmers, especially women farmers, herders and fishers in
developing countries, particularly least developed countries.

25.
We commit to providing inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels
– early childhood, primary, secondary, tertiary, technical and vocational
training. All people, irrespective of sex, age, race, ethnicity, and persons
with disabilities, migrants, indigenous peoples, children and youth, especially
those in vulnerable situations, should have access to life-long learning
opportunities that help them acquire the knowledge and skills needed to exploit
opportunities and to participate fully in society. We will strive to provide
children and youth with a nurturing environment for the full realization of
their rights and capabilities, helping our countries to reap the demographic
dividend including through safe schools and cohesive communities and families.

26.
To promote physical and mental health and well-being, and to extend life
expectancy for all, we must achieve universal health coverage and access to
quality health care. No one must be left behind. We commit to accelerating the
progress made to date in reducing newborn, child and maternal mortality by
ending all such preventable deaths before 2030. We are committed to ensuring
universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for
family planning, information and education. We will equally accelerate the pace
of progress made in fighting malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, Ebola
and other communicable diseases and epidemics, including by addressing growing
anti-microbial resistance and the problem of unattended diseases affecting
developing countries. We are committed to the prevention and treatment of
non-communicable diseases, including behavioural, developmental and
neurological disorders, which constitute a major challenge for sustainable
development.

27.
We will seek to build strong economic foundations for all our countries.
Sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth is essential for
prosperity. This will only be possible if wealth is shared and income
inequality is addressed. We will work to build dynamic, sustainable, innovative
and people-centred economies, promoting youth employment and women’s economic
empowerment, in particular, and decent work for all. We will eradicate forced
labour and human trafficking and end child labour in all its forms. All
countries stand to benefit from having a healthy and well-educated workforce
with the knowledge and skills needed for productive and fulfilling work and
full participation in society. We will strengthen the productive capacities of
least-developed countries in all sectors, including through structural
transformation. We will adopt policies which increase productive capacities,
productivity and productive employment; financial inclusion; sustainable
agriculture, pastoralist and fisheries development; sustainable industrial
development; universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy services; sustainable transport systems; and quality and resilient
infrastructure.

28.
We commit to making fundamental changes in the way that our societies produce
and consume goods and services. Governments, international organizations, the
business sector and other non-state actors and individuals must contribute to
changing unsustainable consumption and production patterns, including through
the mobilization, from all sources, of financial and technical assistance to
strengthen developing countries’ scientific, technological and innovative
capacities to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and
production. We encourage the implementation of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes
on Sustainable Consumption and Production. All countries take action, with
developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and
capabilities of developing countries.

29.
We recognize the positive contribution of migrants for inclusive growth and
sustainable development. We also recognize that international migration is a
multi-dimensional reality of major relevance for the development of countries
of origin, transit and destination, which requires coherent and comprehensive
responses. We will cooperate internationally to ensure safe, orderly and
regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane
treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees and of
displaced persons. Such cooperation should also strengthen the resilience of
communities hosting refugees, particularly in developing countries. We
underline the right of migrants to return to their country of citizenship, and
recall that States must ensure that their returning nationals are duly
received.

30.
States are strongly urged to refrain from promulgating and applying any
unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in accordance with
international law and the Charter of the United Nations that impede the full
achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing
countries.

31.
We acknowledge that the UNFCCC is the primary international, intergovernmental
forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. We are determined
to address decisively the threat posed by climate change and environmental
degradation. The global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible
international cooperation aimed at accelerating the reduction of global
greenhouse gas emissions and addressing adaptation to the adverse impacts of
climate change. We note with grave concern the significant gap between the
aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual
emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways
consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global
average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

32.
Looking ahead to the COP21 conference in Paris in December, we underscore the
commitment of all States to work for an ambitious and universal climate
agreement. We reaffirm that the protocol, another legal instrument or agreed
outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties shall
address in a balanced manner, inter alia, mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology
development and transfer, and capacity-building, and transparency of action and
support.

33.
We recognise that social and economic development depends on the sustainable
management of our planet’s natural resources. We are therefore determined to conserve
and sustainably use oceans and seas, freshwater resources, as well as forests,
mountains and drylands and to protect biodiversity, ecosystems and wildlife. We
are also determined to promote sustainable tourism, tackle water scarcity and
water pollution, to strengthen cooperation on desertification, dust storms,
land degradation and drought and to promote resilience and disaster risk
reduction. In this regard, we look forward to COP13 of the Convention on
Biological Diversity to be held in Mexico in 2016.

34.
We recognize that sustainable urban development and management are crucial to
the quality of life of our people. We will work with local authorities and
communities to renew and plan our cities and human settlements so as to foster
community cohesion and personal security and to stimulate innovation and
employment. We will reduce the negative impacts of urban activities and of
chemicals which are hazardous for human health and the environment, including
through the environmentally sound management and safe use of chemicals, the
reduction and recycling of waste and more efficient use of water and energy.
And we will work to minimize the impact of cities on the global climate system.
We will also take account of population trends and projections in our national,
rural and urban development strategies and policies. We look forward to the
upcoming United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
in Quito, Ecuador.

35.
Sustainable development cannot be realized without peace and security; and
peace and security will be at risk without sustainable development. The new
Agenda recognizes the need to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies that
provide equal access to justice and that are based on respect for human rights
(including the right to development), on effective rule of law and good
governance at all levels and on transparent, effective and accountable
institutions. Factors which give rise to violence, insecurity and injustice,
such as inequality, corruption, poor governance and illicit financial and arms
flows, are addressed in the Agenda. We must redouble our efforts to resolve or
prevent conflict and to support post-conflict countries, including through
ensuring that women have a role in peace-building and state-building. We call
for further effective measures and actions to be taken, in conformity with
international law, to remove the obstacles to the full realization of the right
of self-determination of peoples living under colonial and foreign occupation,
which continue to adversely affect their economic and social development as
well as their environment.

36.
We pledge to foster inter-cultural understanding, tolerance, mutual respect and
an ethic of global citizenship and shared responsibility. We acknowledge the
natural and cultural diversity of the world and recognize that all cultures and
civilizations can contribute to, and are crucial enablers of, sustainable
development.

37.
Sport is also an important enabler of sustainable development. We recognize the
growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in
its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the
empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well
as to health, education and social inclusion objectives.

38.
We reaffirm, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the need to
respect the territorial integrity and political independence of States.

Means of
Implementation

39.
The scale and ambition of the new Agenda requires a revitalized Global
Partnership to ensure its implementation. We fully commit to this. This
Partnership will work in a spirit of global solidarity, in particular
solidarity with the poorest and with people in vulnerable situations. It will
facilitate an intensive global engagement in support of implementation of all
the Goals and targets, bringing together Governments, the private sector, civil
society, the United Nations system and other actors and mobilizing all
available resources.

40.
The means of implementation targets under Goal 17 and under each SDG are key to
realising our Agenda and are of equal importance with the other Goals and
targets. The Agenda, including the SDGs, can be met within the framework of a
revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, supported by the
concrete policies and actions as outlined in the outcome document of the Third
International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa from
13-16 July 2015. We welcome the endorsement by the General Assembly of the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development. We recognize that the full implementation of the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda is critical for the realization of the Sustainable
Development Goals and targets.

41.
We recognize that each country has primary responsibility for its own economic
and social development. The new Agenda deals with the means required for
implementation of the Goals and targets. We recognize that these will include
the mobilization of financial resources as well as capacity-building and the
transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on
favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually
agreed. Public finance, both domestic and international, will play a vital role
in providing essential services and public goods and in catalyzing other
sources of finance. We acknowledge the role of the diverse private sector,
ranging from micro-enterprises to cooperatives to multinationals, and that of
civil society organizations and philanthropic organizations in the
implementation of the new Agenda.

42.
We support the implementation of relevant strategies and programmes of action,
including the Istanbul Declaration and Programme of Action, the SIDS
Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, the Vienna Programme of
Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024, and
reaffirm the importance of supporting the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the
programme of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), all of which
are integral to the new Agenda. We recognize the major challenge to the
achievement of durable peace and sustainable development in countries in
conflict and post-conflict situations.

43.
We emphasize that international public finance plays an important role in
complementing the efforts of countries to mobilize public resources
domestically, especially in the poorest and most vulnerable countries with
limited domestic resources. An important use of international public finance,
including ODA, is to catalyse additional resource mobilization from other
sources, public and private. ODA providers reaffirm their respective
commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the
target of 0.7% of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15% to 0.2% of ODA/GNI
to least developed countries.

44.
We acknowledge the importance for international financial institutions to
support, in line with their mandates, the policy space of each country, in
particular developing countries. We recommit to broadening and strengthening
the voice and participation of developing countries – including African
countries, least developed countries, land-locked developing countries,
small-island developing States and middle-income countries – in international
economic decision-making, norm-setting and global economic governance.

45.
We acknowledge also the essential role of national parliaments through their
enactment of legislation and adoption of budgets and their role in ensuring
accountability for the effective implementation of our commitments. Governments
and public institutions will also work closely on implementation with regional
and local authorities, sub-regional institutions, international institutions,
academia, philanthropic organisations, volunteer groups and others.

46.
We underline the important role and comparative advantage of an adequately
resourced, relevant, coherent, efficient and effective UN system in supporting
the achievement of the SDGs and sustainable development. While stressing the
importance of strengthened national ownership and leadership at country level,
we express our support for the ongoing ECOSOC Dialogue on the longer-term
positioning of the United Nations development system in the context of this
Agenda.

Follow-up and review

47.
Our Governments have the primary responsibility for follow-up and review, at
the national, regional and global levels, in relation to the progress made in
implementing the Goals and targets over the coming fifteen years. To support
accountability to our citizens, we will provide for systematic follow-up and
review at the various levels, as set out in this Agenda and the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda. The High Level Political Forum under the auspices of the General
Assembly and the Economic and Social Council will have the central role in
overseeing follow-up and review at the global level.

48.
Indicators are being developed to assist this work. Quality, accessible, timely
and reliable disaggregated data will be needed to help with the measurement of
progress and to ensure that no one is left behind. Such data is key to
decision-making. Data and information from existing reporting mechanisms should
be used where possible. We agree to intensify our efforts to strengthen
statistical capacities in developing countries, particularly African countries,
least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island
developing States and middle-income countries. We are committed to developing
broader measures of progress to complement gross domestic product (GDP).

A call for action to
change our world

49.
Seventy years ago, an earlier generation of world leaders came together to
create the United Nations. From the ashes of war and division they fashioned
this Organization and the values of peace, dialogue and international
cooperation which underpin it. The supreme embodiment of those values is the
Charter of the United Nations.

50.
Today we are also taking a decision of great historic significance. We resolve
to build a better future for all people, including the millions who have been
denied the chance to lead decent, dignified and rewarding lives and to achieve
their full human potential. We can be the first generation to succeed in ending
poverty; just as we may be the last to have a chance of saving the planet. The
world will be a better place in 2030 if we succeed in our objectives.

51.
What we are announcing today – an Agenda for global action for the next fifteen
years – is a charter for people and planet in the twenty-first century.
Children and young women and men are critical agents of change and will find in
the new Goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into
the creation of a better world.

52.
"We the Peoples" are the celebrated opening words of the UN Charter.
It is "We the Peoples" who are embarking today on the road to 2030.
Our journey will involve Governments as well as Parliaments, the UN system and
other international institutions, local authorities, indigenous peoples, civil
society, business and the private sector, the scientific and academic community
– and all people. Millions have already engaged with, and will own, this
Agenda. It is an Agenda of the people, by the people, and for the people – and
this, we believe, will ensure its success.

53.
The future of humanity and of our planet lies in our hands. It lies also in the
hands of today’s younger generation who will pass the torch to future
generations. We have mapped the road to sustainable development; it will be for
all of us to ensure that the journey is successful and its gains irreversible.

Sustainable Development Goals and targets

54.
Following an inclusive process of intergovernmental negotiations, and based on
the Proposal of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals , which
includes a chapeau contextualising the latter, the following are the Goals and
targets which we have agreed.

55.
The SDGs and targets are integrated and indivisible, global in nature and
universally applicable, taking into account different national realities,
capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and
priorities. Targets are defined as aspirational and global, with each
government setting its own national targets guided by the global level of
ambition but taking into account national circumstances. Each government will
also decide how these aspirational and global targets should be incorporated in
national planning processes, policies and strategies. It is important to
recognize the link between sustainable development and other relevant ongoing
processes in the economic, social and environmental fields.

56.
In deciding upon these Goals and targets, we recognise that each country faces
specific challenges to achieve sustainable development, and we underscore the
special challenges facing the most vulnerable countries and, in particular,
African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries
and small island developing States, as well as the specific challenges facing
the middle-income countries. Countries in situations of conflict also need
special attention.

57.
We recognize that baseline data for several of the targets remain unavailable,
and we call for increased support for strengthening data collection and capacity
building in Member States, to develop national and global baselines where they
do not yet exist. We commit to addressing this gap in data collection so as to
better inform the measurement of progress, in particular for those targets
below which do not have clear numerical targets.

58.
We encourage ongoing efforts by states in other fora to address key issues
which pose potential challenges to the implementation of our Agenda; and we
respect the independent mandates of those processes. We intend that the Agenda
and its implementation would support, and be without prejudice to, those other
processes and the decisions taken therein.

59.
We recognise that there are different approaches, visions, models and tools
available to each country, in accordance with its national circumstances and
priorities, to achieve sustainable development; and we reaffirm that planet
Earth and its ecosystems are our common home and that ‘Mother Earth’ is a
common expression in a number of countries and regions.

Sustainable Development
Goals

·      
Goal 1. End poverty in
all its forms everywhere

·      
Goal 2. End hunger,
achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture

·      
Goal 3. Ensure healthy
lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

·      
Goal 4. Ensure
inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all

·      
Goal 5. Achieve gender
equality and empower all women and girls

·      
Goal 6. Ensure
availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

·      
Goal 7. Ensure access
to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

·      
Goal 8. Promote
sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all

·      
Goal 9. Build
resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation

·      
Goal 10. Reduce
inequality within and among countries

·      
Goal 11. Make cities
and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

·      
Goal 12. Ensure
sustainable consumption and production patterns

·      
Goal 13. Take urgent
action to combat climate change and its impacts*

·      
Goal 14. Conserve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable
development

·      
Goal 15. Protect,
restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably
manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation
and halt biodiversity loss

·      
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

·      
Goal 17. Strengthen
the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for
sustainable development

*
Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is
the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global
response to climate change.

Goal 1. End poverty in
all its forms everywhere

1.1
By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently
measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day 



1.2 By 2030, reduce at least by half the
proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its
dimensions according to national definitions 

1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social
protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve
substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable 

1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in
particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic
resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land
and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new
technology and financial services, including microfinance 

1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor
and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability
to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental
shocks and disasters 

1.a Ensure significant mobilization of resources
from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation,
in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in
particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to
end poverty in all its dimensions 

1.b Create sound policy frameworks at the national,
regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive
development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty
eradication actions

Goal 2. End hunger,
achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture

2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and
people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and
sufficient food all year round 

2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including
achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting
in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of
adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons 

2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural
productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women,
indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through
secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs,
knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and
non-farm employment 

2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production
systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase
productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen
capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding
and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality 

2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of
seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related
wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant
banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to
and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of
genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally
agreed 

2.a Increase investment, including through
enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural
research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock
gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing
countries, in particular least developed countries 

2.b Correct and prevent trade restrictions and
distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel
elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export
measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha
Development Round 

2.c Adopt measures to ensure the proper
functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate
timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to
help limit extreme food price volatility

Goal 3. Ensure healthy
lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

3.1 By
2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000
live births 

3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns
and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal
mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality
to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births 

3.3 By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis,
water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases 

3.4 By 2030, reduce by one third premature
mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and
promote mental health and well-being 

3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of
substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol 

3.6 By 2020, halve the number of global deaths
and injuries from road traffic accidents 

3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual
and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning,
information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into
national strategies and programmes 

3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including
financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and
access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and
vaccines for all 

3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce the number of
deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution
and contamination 

3.a Strengthen the implementation of the World
Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries,
as appropriate 

3.b Support the research and development of
vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that
primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential
medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS
Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to
use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health,
and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all 

3.c Substantially increase health financing and
the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in
developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island
developing States 

3.d Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in
particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and
management of national and global health risks

Goal 4. Ensure
inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all

4.1
By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality
primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning
outcomes 

4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have
access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education
so that they are ready for primary education 

4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women
and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education,
including university 

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number
of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and
vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship 

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in
education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational
training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous
peoples and children in vulnerable situations 

4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and a
substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and
numeracy 

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire
the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including,
among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable
lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and
non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of
culture’s contribution to sustainable development 

4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that
are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent,
inclusive and effective learning environments for all 

4.b By 2020, substantially expand globally the
number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least
developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for
enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information
and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific
programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries 

4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply
of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher
training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and
small island developing States

Goal 5. Achieve gender
equality and empower all women and girls

5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere 

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all
women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and
sexual and other types of exploitation 

5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as
child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation 

5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic
work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social
protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the
household and the family as nationally appropriate 

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective
participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of
decision-making in political, economic and public life 

5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and
reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of
their review conferences 

5.a Undertake reforms to give women equal rights
to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and
other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources,
in accordance with national laws 

5.b Enhance the use of enabling technology, in
particular information and communications technology, to promote the
empowerment of women 

5.c Adopt and strengthen sound policies and
enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

Goal 6. Ensure
availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

6.1
By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking
water for all 

6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and
equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying
special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable
situations 

6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing
pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals
and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially
increasing recycling and safe reuse globally 

6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use
efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of
freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of
people suffering from water scarcity 

6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water
resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation
as appropriate 

6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related
ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and
lakes 

6.a By 2030, expand international cooperation
and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and
sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting,
desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse
technologies 

6.b Support and strengthen the participation of
local communities in improving water and sanitation management

Goal 7. Ensure access
to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

7.1
By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy
services 

7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of
renewable energy in the global energy mix 

7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of
improvement in energy efficiency 

7.a By 2030, enhance international cooperation
to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including
renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel
technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy
technology 

7.b By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade
technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in
developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island
developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with
their respective programmes of support

Goal 8. Promote
sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all

8.1
Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances
and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum
in the least developed countries 

8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity
through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including
through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors 

8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that
support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship,
creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of
micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to
financial services 

8.4 Improve progressively, through 2030, global
resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple
economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year
framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with
developed countries taking the lead 

8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive
employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people
and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value 

8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion
of youth not in employment, education or training 

8.7 Take immediate and effective measures to
eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure
the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including
recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its
forms 

8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and
secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in
particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment 

8.9 By 2030, devise and implement policies to
promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and
products 

8.10 Strengthen the capacity of domestic
financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and
financial services for all 

8.a Increase Aid for Trade support for
developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including
through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical
Assistance to Least Developed Countries 

8.b By 2020, develop and operationalize a global
strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the
International Labour Organization

Goal 9. Build
resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation

9.1
Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including
regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and
human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all 

9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross
domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in
least developed countries 

9.3 Increase the access of small-scale
industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to
financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into
value chains and markets 

9.4 By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit
industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and
greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial
processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective
capabilities 

9.5 Enhance scientific research, upgrade the
technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in
particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and
substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1
million people and public and private research and development spending 

9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient
infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial,
technological and technical support to African countries, least developed
countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing
States 

9.b Support domestic technology development,
research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a
conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and
value addition to commodities 

9.c Significantly increase access to information
and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable
access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020

Goal 10. Reduce
inequality within and among countries

10.1
By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per
cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average 

10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social,
economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability,
race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status 

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce
inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies
and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in
this regard 

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and
social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality 

10.5 Improve the regulation and monitoring of
global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of
such regulations 

10.6 Ensure enhanced representation and voice
for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic
and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible,
accountable and legitimate institutions 

10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and
responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the
implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies 

10.a Implement the principle of special and
differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed
countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements 

10.b Encourage official development assistance
and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the
need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries,
small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in
accordance with their national plans and programmes 

10.c By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the
transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors
with costs higher than 5 per cent

Goal 11. Make cities
and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

11.1
By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and
basic services and upgrade slums 

11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe,
affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving
road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to
the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with
disabilities and older persons 

11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable
urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human
settlement planning and management in all countries 

11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard
the world’s cultural and natural heritage 

11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of
deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct
economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters,
including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and
people in vulnerable situations 

11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita
environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air
quality and municipal and other waste management 

11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe,
inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and
children, older persons and persons with disabilities 

11.a Support positive economic, social and
environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening
national and regional development planning 

11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number
of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies
and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to
climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line
with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic
disaster risk management at all levels 

11.c Support least developed countries,
including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable
and resilient buildings utilizing local materials

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable
consumption and production patterns

12.1
Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and
production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the
lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing
countries 

12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management
and efficient use of natural resources 

12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste
at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and
supply chains, including post-harvest losses 

12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound
management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in
accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their
release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on
human health and the environment 

12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste
generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse 

12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and
transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate
sustainability information into their reporting cycle 

12.7 Promote public procurement practices that
are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities 

12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have
the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and
lifestyles in harmony with nature 

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

12.b Develop and implement tools to monitor
sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and
promotes local culture and products 

12.c Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel
subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions,
in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation
and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their
environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and
conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts
on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected
communities

Goal 13. Take urgent
action to combat climate change and its impacts*

13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and
natural disasters in all countries 

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

13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and
human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation,
impact reduction and early warning 

13.a Implement the commitment undertaken by
developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all
sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of
meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully
operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as
possible 

13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for
effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed
countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women,
youth and local and marginalized communities

*
Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is
the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global
response to climate change.

Goal 14. Conserve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable
development

14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in
particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient
pollution 

14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect
marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including
by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in
order to achieve healthy and productive oceans 

14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean
acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all
levels 

14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting
and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and
destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in
order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels
that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological
characteristics 

14.5 By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of
coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and
based on the best available scientific information 

14.6 By 2020, prohibit certain forms of
fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate
subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and
refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and
effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed
countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries
subsidies negotiation 

14.7 By 2030, increase the economic benefits to
Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the
sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management
of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism 

14.a Increase scientific knowledge, develop
research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the
Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance
the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing
countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed
countries 

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

14.c Enhance the conservation and sustainable
use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as
reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation
and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158
of The Future We Want

Goal 15. Protect,
restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably
manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation
and halt biodiversity loss

15.1
By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of
terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular
forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under
international agreements 

15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of
sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore
degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation
globally 

15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore
degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and
floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world 

15.4 By 2030, ensure the conservation of
mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their
capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable
development 

15.5 Take urgent and significant action to
reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and,
by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species 

15.6 Promote fair and equitable sharing of the
benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote
appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed 

15.7 Take urgent action to end poaching and
trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and
supply of illegal wildlife products 

15.8 By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the
introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on
land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species 

15.9 By 2020, integrate ecosystem and
biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes,
poverty reduction strategies and accounts 

15.a Mobilize and significantly increase
financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use
biodiversity and ecosystems 

15.b Mobilize significant resources from all
sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide
adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management,
including for conservation and reforestation 

15.c Enhance global support for efforts to
combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing
the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood
opportunities

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

16.1
Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates
everywhere 

16.2 End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and
all forms of violence against and torture of children 

16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and
international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all 

16.4 By 2030, significantly reduce illicit
financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets
and combat all forms of organized crime 

16.5 Substantially reduce corruption and bribery
in all their forms 

16.6 Develop effective, accountable and
transparent institutions at all levels 

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory
and representative decision-making at all levels 

16.8 Broaden and strengthen the participation of
developing countries in the institutions of global governance 

16.9 By 2030, provide legal identity for all,
including birth registration 

16.10 Ensure public access to information and
protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and
international agreements 

16.a Strengthen relevant national institutions,
including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all
levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat
terrorism and crime 

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

Goal 17. Strengthen
the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for
sustainable development

Finance

17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international
support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other
revenue collection 

17.2 Developed countries to implement fully
their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by
many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to
developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed
countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide
at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries 

17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources for
developing countries from multiple sources 

17.4 Assist developing countries in attaining
long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering
debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address
the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt
distress 

17.5 Adopt and implement investment promotion
regimes for least developed countries

Technology

17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international
cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance
knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved
coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations
level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism 

17.7 Promote the development, transfer,
dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing
countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential
terms, as mutually agreed 

17.8 Fully operationalize the technology bank
and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least
developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in
particular information and communications technology

Capacity-building

17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted
capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to
implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South,
South-South and triangular cooperation

Trade

17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable
multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including
through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda 

17.11 Significantly increase the exports of
developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed
countries’ share of global exports by 2020 

17.12 Realize timely implementation of duty-free
and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed
countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by
ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least
developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating
market access

Systemic issues

Policy and
institutional coherence

17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination
and policy coherence 

17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable
development 

17.15 Respect each country’s policy space and
leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and
sustainable development

Multi-stakeholder
partnerships

17.16
Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by
multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise,
technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the
sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries 

17.17 Encourage and promote effective public,
public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and
resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and
accountability

17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including
for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase
significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data
disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status,
disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national
contexts 

17.19 By 2030, build on existing initiatives to
develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement
gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing
countries

Means of implementation and the Global
Partnership

60.
We reaffirm our strong commitment to the full implementation of this new
Agenda. We recognize that we will not be able to achieve our ambitious Goals and
targets without a revitalized and enhanced Global Partnership and comparably
ambitious means of implementation. The revitalized Global Partnership will
facilitate an intensive global engagement in support of implementation of all
the goals and targets, bringing together Governments, civil society, the
private sector, the United Nations system and other actors and mobilizing all
available resources.

61.
The Agenda’s Goals and targets deal with the means required to realise our
collective ambitions. The means of implementation targets under each SDG and
Goal 17, which are referred to above, are key to realising our Agenda and are
of equal importance with the other Goals and targets. We shall accord them
equal priority in our implementation efforts and in the global indicator
framework for monitoring our progress.

62.
This Agenda, including the SDGs, can be met within the framework of a
revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, supported by the
concrete policies and actions outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda , which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The Addis
Ababa Action Agenda supports, complements and helps contextualize the 2030
Agenda’s means of implementation targets. These relate to domestic public
resources, domestic and international private business and finance,
international development cooperation, international trade as an engine for
development, debt and debt sustainability, addressing systemic issues and
science, technology, innovation and capacity-building, and data, monitoring and
follow-up.

63.
Cohesive nationally owned sustainable development strategies, supported by
integrated national financing frameworks, will be at the heart of our efforts.
We reiterate that each country has primary responsibility for its own economic
and social development and that the role of national policies and development
strategies cannot be overemphasized. We will respect each country’s policy
space and leadership to implement policies for poverty eradication and
sustainable development, while remaining consistent with relevant international
rules and commitments. At the same time, national development efforts need to
be supported by an enabling international economic environment, including
coherent and mutually supporting world trade, monetary and financial systems,
and strengthened and enhanced global economic governance. Processes to develop
and facilitate the availability of appropriate knowledge and technologies
globally, as well as capacity-building, are also critical. We commit to
pursuing policy coherence and an enabling environment for sustainable
development at all levels and by all actors, and to reinvigorating the global
partnership for sustainable development.

64.
We support the implementation of relevant strategies and programmes of action,
including the Istanbul Declaration and Programme of Action, the SIDS
Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, the Vienna Programme of
Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024, and
reaffirm the importance of supporting the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the
programme of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), all of which
are integral to the new Agenda. We recognize the major challenge to the
achievement of durable peace and sustainable development in countries in
conflict and post-conflict situations.

65.
We recognize that middle-income countries still face significant challenges to
achieve sustainable development. In order to ensure that achievements made to
date are sustained, efforts to address ongoing challenges should be
strengthened through the exchange of experiences, improved coordination, and
better and focused support of the United Nations Development System, the
international financial institutions, regional organizations and other
stakeholders.

66.
We underscore that, for all countries, public policies and the mobilization and
effective use of domestic resources, underscored by the principle of national
ownership, are central to our common pursuit of sustainable development,
including achieving the sustainable development goals. We recognize that
domestic resources are first and foremost generated by economic growth,
supported by an enabling environment at all levels.

67.
Private business activity, investment and innovation are major drivers of
productivity, inclusive economic growth and job creation. We acknowledge the
diversity of the private sector, ranging from micro-enterprises to cooperatives
to multinationals. We call on all businesses to apply their creativity and
innovation to solving sustainable development challenges. We will foster a
dynamic and well-functioning business sector, while protecting labour rights
and environmental and health standards in accordance with relevant
international standards and agreements and other on-going initiatives in this
regard, such as the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the
labour standards of ILO, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and key
multilateral environmental agreements, for parties to those agreements.

68.
International trade is an engine for inclusive economic growth and poverty
reduction, and contributes to the promotion of sustainable development. We will
continue to promote a universal, rules-based, open, transparent, predictable,
inclusive, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under
the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as meaningful trade liberalization.
We call on all WTO members to redouble their efforts to promptly conclude the
negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda. We attach great importance to
providing trade-related capacity-building for developing countries, including
African countries, least-developed countries, landlocked developing countries,
small island developing states and middle-income countries, including for the
promotion of regional economic integration and interconnectivity.

69.
We recognize the need to assist developing countries in attaining long-term
debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt
financing, debt relief, debt restructuring and sound debt management, as
appropriate. Many countries remain vulnerable to debt crises and some are in
the midst of crises, including a number of least developed countries,
small-island developing States and some developed countries. We reiterate that
debtors and creditors must work together to prevent and resolve unsustainable
debt situations. Maintaining sustainable debt levels is the responsibility of
the borrowing countries; however we acknowledge that lenders also have a
responsibility to lend in a way that does not undermine a country’s debt
sustainability. We will support the maintenance of debt sustainability of those
countries that have received debt relief and achieved sustainable debt levels.

70. We
hereby launch a Technology Facilitation Mechanism which was established by the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda in order to support the sustainable development
goals. The Technology Facilitation Mechanism will be based on a
multi-stakeholder collaboration between Member States, civil society, private
sector, scientific community, United Nations entities and other stakeholders
and will be composed of: a United Nations Interagency Task Team on Science,
Technology and Innovation for the SDGs, a collaborative Multistakeholder Forum
on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs and an on-line platform.

• The
United Nations Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for
the SDGs will promote coordination, coherence, and cooperation within the UN System
on STI related matters, enhancing synergy and efficiency, in particular to
enhance capacity-building initiatives. The Task Team will draw on existing
resources and will work with 10 representatives from the civil society, private
sector, the scientific community, to prepare the meetings of the
Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs, as
well as in the development and operationalization of the on-line platform,
including preparing proposals for the modalities for the Forum and the on-line
platform. The 10 representatives will be appointed by the Secretary General,
for periods of two years. The Task Team will be open to the participation of
all UN agencies, funds and programmes, and ECOSOC functional commissions and it
will initially be composed by the entities that currently integrate the
informal working group on technology facilitation, namely: UN Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Environment Programme, UNIDO,
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNCTAD,
International Telecommunication Union, WIPO and the World Bank. 

• The on-line platform will be used to establish
a comprehensive mapping of, and serve as a gateway for, information on existing
STI initiatives, mechanisms and programmes, within and beyond the UN. The
on-line platform will facilitate access to information, knowledge and
experience, as well as best practices and lessons learned, on STI facilitation
initiatives and policies. The online platform will also facilitate the
dissemination of relevant open access scientific publications generated
worldwide. The on-line platform will be developed on the basis of an
independent technical assessment which will take into account best practices
and lessons learned from other initiatives, within and beyond the United
Nations, in order to ensure that it will complement, facilitate access to and
provide adequate information on existing STI platforms, avoiding duplications
and enhancing synergies. 

• The Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science
Technology and Innovation for the SDGs will be convened once a year, for a
period of two days, to discuss STI cooperation around thematic areas for the
implementation of the SDGs, congregating all relevant stakeholders to actively
contribute in their area of expertise. The Forum will provide a venue for
facilitating interaction, matchmaking and the establishment of networks between
relevant stakeholders and multi- stakeholder partnerships in order to identify
and examine technology needs and gaps, including on scientific cooperation,
innovation and capacity building, and also in order to help facilitate
development, transfer and dissemination of relevant technologies for the SDGs.
The meetings of the Forum will be convened by the President of the ECOSOC
before the meeting of the High Level Political Forum under the auspices of
ECOSOC or, alternatively, in conjunction with other fora or conferences, as
appropriate, taking into account the theme to be considered and on the basis of
a collaboration with the organizers of the other fora or conference. The
meetings of the Forum will be co-chaired by two Member States and will result
in a summary of discussions elaborated by the two co-chairs, as an input to the
meetings of the High Level Political Forum, in the context of the follow-up and
review of the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. 

• The meetings of the HLPF will be informed by
the summary of the Multistakeholder Forum. The themes for the subsequent
Multistakeholder Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for the SDGs will
be considered by the High Level Political Forum on sustainable development,
taking into account expert inputs from the Task Team.

71.
We reiterate that this Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals and
targets, including the means of implementation are universal, indivisible and
interlinked.

Follow-up and review

72.
We commit to engage in systematic follow-up and review of implementation of
this Agenda over the next fifteen years. A robust, voluntary, effective,
participatory, transparent and integrated follow-up and review framework will
make a vital contribution to implementation and will help countries to maximize
and track progress in implementing this Agenda in order to ensure that no one
is left behind.

73.
Operating at the national, regional and global levels, it will promote
accountability to our citizens, support effective international cooperation in
achieving this Agenda and foster exchanges of best practices and mutual
learning. It will mobilize support to overcome shared challenges and identify
new and emerging issues. As this is a universal Agenda, mutual trust and
understanding among all nations will be important.

74.
Follow-up and review processes at all levels will be guided by the following
principles:

a.
They will be voluntary and country-led, will take into account different
national realities, capacities and levels of development and will respect
policy space and priorities. As national ownership is key to achieving
sustainable development, the outcome from national level processes will be the
foundation for reviews at regional and global levels, given that the global
review will be primarily based on national official data sources. 

b. They will track progress in implementing the
universal Goals and targets, including the means of implementation, in all
countries in a manner which respects their universal, integrated and
interrelated nature and the three dimensions of sustainable development. 

c. They will maintain a longer-term orientation,
identify achievements, challenges, gaps and critical success factors and
support countries in making informed policy choices. They will help mobilize
the necessary means of implementation and partnerships, support the
identification of solutions and best practices and promote coordination and
effectiveness of the international development system. 

d. They will be open, inclusive, participatory
and transparent for all people and will support the reporting by all relevant
stakeholders. 

e. They will be people-centred, gender-sensitive,
respect human rights and have a particular focus on the poorest, most
vulnerable and those furthest behind. 

f. They will build on existing platforms and
processes, where these exist, avoid duplication and respond to national
circumstances, capacities, needs and priorities. They will evolve over time,
taking into account emerging issues and the development of new methodologies,
and will minimize the reporting burden on national administrations. 

g. They will be rigorous and based on evidence,
informed by country-led evaluations and data which is high-quality, accessible,
timely, reliable and disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity,
migration status, disability and geographic location and other characteristics
relevant in national contexts. 

h. They will require enhanced capacity-building
support for developing countries, including the strengthening of national data
systems and evaluation programs, particularly in African countries, LDCs, SIDS
and LLDCs and middle-income countries. 

i. They will benefit from the active support of
the UN system and other multilateral institutions.

75.
The Goals and targets will be followed-up and reviewed using a set of global
indicators. These will be complemented by indicators at the regional and national
levels which will be developed by member states, in addition to the outcomes of
work undertaken for the development of the baselines for those targets where
national and global baseline data does not yet exist. The global indicator
framework, to be developed by the Inter Agency and Expert Group on SDG
Indicators, will be agreed by the UN Statistical Commission by March 2016 and
adopted thereafter by the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly,
in line with existing mandates. This framework will be simple yet robust,
address all SDGs and targets including for means of implementation, and
preserve the political balance, integration and ambition contained therein.

76.
We will support developing countries, particularly African countries, LDCs,
SIDS and LLDCs, in strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices
and data systems to ensure access to high-quality, timely, reliable and
disaggregated data. We will promote transparent and accountable scaling-up of
appropriate public-private cooperation to exploit the contribution to be made
by a wide range of data, including earth observation and geo-spatial
information, while ensuring national ownership in supporting and tracking
progress.

77.
We commit to fully engage in conducting regular and inclusive reviews of
progress at sub-national, national, regional and global levels. We will draw as
far as possible on the existing network of follow-up and review institutions
and mechanisms. National reports will allow assessments of progress and identify
challenges at the regional and global level. Along with regional dialogues and
global reviews, they will inform recommendations for follow-up at various
levels.

National level

78.
We encourage all member states to develop as soon as practicable ambitious
national responses to the overall implementation of this Agenda. These can
support the transition to the SDGs and build on existing planning instruments,
such as national development and sustainable development strategies, as
appropriate.

79.
We also encourage member states to conduct regular and inclusive reviews of
progress at the national and sub-national levels which are country-led and
country-driven. Such reviews should draw on contributions from indigenous
peoples, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders, in line with
national circumstances, policies and priorities. National parliaments as well
as other institutions can also support these processes.

Regional level

80.
Follow-up and review at the regional and sub-regional levels can, as
appropriate, provide useful opportunities for peer learning, including through
voluntary reviews, sharing of best practices and discussion on shared targets.
We welcome in this respect the cooperation of regional and sub-regional
commissions and organizations. Inclusive regional processes will draw on
national-level reviews and contribute to follow-up and review at the global
level, including at the High Level Political Forum on sustainable development
(HLPF).

81.
Recognizing the importance of building on existing follow-up and review
mechanisms at the regional level and allowing adequate policy space, we
encourage all member states to identify the most suitable regional forum in
which to engage. UN regional commissions are encouraged to continue supporting
member states in this regard.

Global level

82.
The HLPF will have a central role in overseeing a network of follow-up and
review processes at the global level, working coherently with the General
Assembly, ECOSOC and other relevant organs and forums, in accordance with
existing mandates. It will facilitate sharing of experiences, including
successes, challenges and lessons learned, and provide political leadership,
guidance and recommendations for follow-up. It will promote system-wide coherence
and coordination of sustainable development policies. It should ensure that the
Agenda remains relevant and ambitious and should focus on the assessment of
progress, achievements and challenges faced by developed and developing
countries as well as new and emerging issues. Effective linkages will be made
with the follow-up and review arrangements of all relevant UN Conferences and
processes, including on LDCs, SIDS and LLDCs.

83.
Follow-up and review at the HLPF will be informed by an annual SDG Progress Report
to be prepared by the Secretary General in cooperation with the UN System,
based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national
statistical systems and information collected at the regional level. The HLPF
will also be informed by the Global Sustainable Development Report, which shall
strengthen the science-policy interface and could provide a strong
evidence-based instrument to support policy-makers in promoting poverty
eradication and sustainable development. We invite the President of ECOSOC to
conduct a process of consultations on the scope, methodology and frequency of
the Report as well as its relation to the SDG Progress Report, the outcome of
which should be reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of the HLPF session in
2016.

84.
The HLPF, under the auspices of ECOSOC, shall carry out regular reviews, in
line with Resolution 67/290. Reviews will be voluntary, while encouraging
reporting, and include developed and developing countries as well as relevant
UN entities and other stakeholders, including civil society and the private
sector. They shall be state-led, involving ministerial and other relevant
high-level participants. They shall provide a platform for partnerships,
including through the participation of major groups and other relevant
stakeholders.

85.
Thematic reviews of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, including
cross-cutting issues, will also take place at the HLPF. These will be supported
by reviews by the ECOSOC functional commissions and other inter-governmental
bodies and forums which should reflect the integrated nature of the goals as
well as the interlinkages between them. They will engage all relevant
stakeholders and, where possible, feed into, and be aligned with, the cycle of
the HLPF.

86.
We welcome, as outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the dedicated
follow-up and review for the Financing for Development outcomes as well as all
the means of implementation of the SDGs which is integrated with the follow-up
and review framework of this Agenda. The intergovernmentally agreed conclusions
and recommendations of the annual ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development
will be fed into the overall follow-up and review of the implementation of this
Agenda in the HLPF.

87.
Meeting every four years under the auspices of the General Assembly, the HLPF
will provide high-level political guidance on the Agenda and its
implementation, identify progress and emerging challenges and mobilize further
actions to accelerate implementation. The next HLPF, under the auspices of the
General Assembly, will take place in 2019, with the cycle of meetings thus
reset, in order to maximize coherence with the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy
Review process.

88.
We also stress the importance of system-wide strategic planning, implementation
and reporting in order to ensure coherent and integrated support to
implementation of the new Agenda by the UN development system. The relevant
governing bodies should take action to review such support to implementation
and to report on progress and obstacles. We welcome the ongoing ECOSOC
Dialogues on the longer term positioning of the UN development system and look
forward to taking action on these issues, as appropriate.

89.
The HLPF will support participation in follow-up and review processes by the
major groups and other relevant stakeholders in line with Resolution 67/290. We
call on these actors to report on their contribution to the implementation of
the Agenda.

90.
We request the Secretary General, in consultation with Member States, to
prepare a report, for consideration at the 70th session of the General Assembly
in preparation for the 2016 meeting of the HLPF, which outlines critical
milestones towards coherent efficient, and inclusive follow-up and review at
the global level. This report should include a proposal on the organizational
arrangements for state-led reviews at the HLPF under the auspices of ECOSOC,
including recommendations on a voluntary common reporting guidelines. It should
clarify institutional responsibilities and provide guidance on annual themes,
on a sequence of thematic reviews, and on options for periodic reviews for the
HLPF.

91. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to
achieving this Agenda and utilizing it to the full to transform our world for
the better by 2030.

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