The Importance Of Sustainable Development Goals

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Sustainable development is development that improves the living conditions in the present without compromising the resources of future generations. It is about growing together, improving.the thinking of others and respecting the environment.
The Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the “Global Goals” are build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which comprised of 8 anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015. The MDGs, adopted in 2000, aimed at a number of issues that included eradicating poverty, hunger, diseases, gender inequality, and access to clean water and sanitation. Despite enormous progress achieved in the attainment of MDGs, the indignity of poverty has not been ended for all by 2015.
On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable, Development, along with a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169, associated targets, which include ending poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and tackling, climate change by 2030 among others.
Pakistan adopted the SDGs on 27th September, 2015 and was the first country to adopt them through a unanimous resolution of the parliament. The government has taken numerous steps to be able to achieve these goals by 2030 such as establishing, SDG support units at provincial and federal level as well as an SDG secretariat within the parliament. ,,
Furthermore, Pakistan has also kicked off its Vision 2025 which is aimed to enable

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