The UN member countries, including Brazil, have new challenges to meet by 2030. As part of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), these countries have committed to achieving 169 targets through integrated actions among ministries, public agencies, and organizations.
The topic was discussed in a meeting with Brazil’s Minister of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, Gilberto Kassab, and the National Secretary for Social Articulation of the Presidency, Henrique Vila da Costa Ferreira.
“MCTIC has a great responsibility towards all ministries to ensure that the federal government can set an example, adding priorities, enhancing actions, and creating conditions to monitor what happens in Brazil, in any dimension,” said Kassab.
The SDGs 2016-2030 succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, established for the period 2000-2015). Due to its international prominence in achieving the MDG targets, Brazil secured a spot on the UN High-Level Group that monitors the global implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
According to Secretary Vila, the initiative marks the government’s commitment to international targets. “It is a long-term agenda that addresses absolutely fundamental issues for the Brazilian population: poverty, sanitation, child mortality. These are larger goals, and they are constantly related to our problems.”
2030 Agenda
In 2015, UN member countries committed to implementing a universal and integrated agenda titled “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
The Brazilian government was responsible for guiding coordinated and integrated actions to implement the agenda at the national level.
“It is a global agenda for sustainable development that brings together nearly 200 UN countries. Several actions are underway in Brazil, including integration actions and calls for governance. The idea is that our internal agencies understand the goals internally so that they can contribute to this agenda through their programs, projects, and initiatives,” said Henrique Vila. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals:
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere;
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture;
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages;
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all;
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls;
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all;
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all;
8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all;
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation;
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries;
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable;
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns;
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts;
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development;
15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt the loss of biodiversity;
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;
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Your Help
For the goals to be achieved, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society, and people like you.
Want to get involved? The UN website has prepared a list of actions you can take in your daily life to contribute to a sustainable future.
Access the link: www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
Source: BrasilGovNews