Sustainable Development Global Goals

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Find Out More: What are the Global Goals?

The United Nations has developed 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals to replace the Millennium Development Goals which come to an end in 2015. These 17 Global Goals, which propose to end extreme poverty, fight inequality & injustice and fix climate change, will be launched at a UN Summit in New York on 25 September 2015.

These new goals represent a global agreement on how to promote "sustainable development" in all countries around the world, and are the result of a process of negotiations that started at a UN summit in 2010. Following that summit, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched several initiatives to ensure debate and discussion on what the appropriate priorities for a new global framework should be. 

Irish NGOs engaged in several of these processes, either directly or through Dóchas and other NGO networks. For instance, Dóchas met with and wrote to members of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons advising Mr. Ban and also attended the “Rio+20” summit on Sustainable Development held in June 2012. Dóchas members and their overseas partners also participated in numerous regional, national and thematic consultations. Most notably, Dóchas teamed up with civil society organisations in Ireland in a bid to arrive at a broader NGO position on "The World We Want". 

Further information

The Global Goals for adoption at September 2015 UN Summit

• UN Sustainable Development information website - Tranforming Our World - The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

• Transforming Our World - The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - August 2015 - Direct Download

Dóchas Blog Posts

• Everything you wanted to know about the “Sustainable Development Goals” but were afraid to ask

• Why is 2015 the European Year for Development?

• The space for civil society in the Sustainable Development Goals negotiations

Dóchas Resources

• Dóchas (in role as Irish Beyond 2015 Task Group) Response to Final Draft (also called Revised Zero Draft) Outcome Document for the UN Summit on  the SDGs - 14 July 2015

• Beyond 2015 European Task Force Response to Final Draft Outcome Document for the UN Summit on the SDGs 13 July 2015

• Beyond 2015 European Task Force Response to Zero Draft Outcome Document for the UN Summit on the SDGs  12 June 2015

• Dóchas Submission to UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)

• The World We Want: the Opportunity of the Irish EU Presidency

Sustainable Development Goals Discussion Process

• Dóchas and the Beyond2015 Task Force Ireland recommendations to the UN Session on the Post2015 Political Declaration, 17-20 February, New York

• The road to dignity by 2030: ending poverty, transforming all lives and protecting the planet - Synthesis report of the Secretary Secretary-General on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda 

• Open Working Group proposal for Sustainable Development Goals