Taskforce 17
Rapid deployment of solutions aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The problems are named.
The climate, held steady.
Cities, built to last.
The harvest, secured.
Power reaches everyone.
The water, running clear.
The ocean, recovered.
Seventeen goals
Ends extreme poverty and halves poverty in all its dimensions. Covers social protection systems, equal economic rights, and resilience to climate and economic shocks.
- End extreme poverty for all people everywhere
- Halve poverty in all its dimensions, by national definitions
- Social protection systems and floors for all
- Equal rights to economic resources and basic services
- Build resilience of the poor to shocks and disasters
- Mobilise resources for poverty programmes
- Policy frameworks that favour the poor
Access to safe, nutritious, sufficient food all year round. Extends to ending malnutrition, doubling smallholder productivity, and keeping food systems and crop diversity resilient.
- End hunger; safe, sufficient food for all
- End all forms of malnutrition
- Double smallholder productivity and incomes
- Sustainable, resilient food production systems
- Maintain genetic diversity of seeds, plants, and animals
- Invest in rural infrastructure, research, and technology
- Correct distortions in world agricultural markets
- Functioning food markets; limit price volatility
Spans maternal, newborn, and child survival, communicable and non-communicable disease, and mental health. Universal health coverage sits at its centre.
- Reduce maternal mortality
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children
- End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria
- Cut premature deaths from non-communicable disease by a third
- Strengthen prevention and treatment of substance abuse
- Halve deaths and injuries from road traffic
- Universal access to sexual and reproductive health care
- Achieve universal health coverage
- Reduce deaths from pollution and hazardous chemicals
- Strengthen tobacco control everywhere
- Research and access to vaccines and medicines
- Increase health financing and workforce where scarce
- Strengthen early warning for health risks
Free, equitable primary and secondary education for every child. Extends from early childhood development to affordable technical, vocational, and tertiary routes, and adult literacy.
- Free, quality primary and secondary education for all
- Quality early childhood development and pre-primary education
- Equal access to affordable technical and tertiary education
- Skills relevant for employment and enterprise
- Eliminate disparities in access to education
- Universal youth literacy and numeracy
- Education for sustainable development and citizenship
- Safe, inclusive, effective learning environments
- Expand scholarships for developing countries
- Increase the supply of qualified teachers
Ends discrimination and violence against women and girls. Covers unpaid care work, equal participation and leadership, and universal reproductive health and rights.
- End discrimination against women and girls
- Eliminate violence against women and girls
- Eliminate child marriage and female genital mutilation
- Recognise and value unpaid care and domestic work
- Full participation in leadership and decision-making
- Universal access to reproductive health and rights
- Equal rights to economic resources and property
- Technology in service of women's empowerment
- Enforceable legislation for gender equality
Universal, safe, affordable drinking water and sanitation. Extends to water quality, use efficiency, management across borders, and protection of water ecosystems.
- Universal, affordable, safe drinking water
- Adequate, equitable sanitation and hygiene for all
- Improve water quality; halve untreated wastewater
- Raise water-use efficiency; address scarcity
- Integrated water management, including across borders
- Protect and restore water-related ecosystems
- International cooperation on water and sanitation
- Local participation in water management
Universal access to modern energy. A substantially higher share of renewables in the global mix, and a doubled rate of improvement in energy efficiency.
- Universal access to affordable, reliable, modern energy
- Substantially raise the share of renewable energy
- Double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency
- Cooperation and investment in clean energy
- Expand energy infrastructure where it is absent
Sustained growth that does not degrade the environment. Full, productive employment and decent work for all, and an end to forced labour, modern slavery, and child labour.
- Sustain per-capita economic growth
- Raise productivity through diversification and innovation
- Policies for job creation and enterprise
- Decouple growth from environmental degradation
- Full employment and decent work with equal pay
- Reduce youth outside employment, education, or training
- End forced labour, modern slavery, and child labour
- Protect labour rights; safe working environments
- Sustainable tourism that creates jobs
- Access to banking and financial services for all
- Increase aid-for-trade support
- A global strategy for youth employment
Resilient infrastructure, inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and innovation. Covers finance for small enterprises, upgraded clean industry, and research capacity.
- Resilient, sustainable infrastructure for all
- Inclusive and sustainable industrialisation
- Access to finance for small enterprises
- Retrofit industry and infrastructure for sustainability
- Strengthen research; upgrade industrial technology
- Facilitate sustainable infrastructure where it is needed
- Support domestic technology and innovation
- Universal, affordable access to the internet
Income growth for the poorest forty percent above the national average. Social, economic, and political inclusion regardless of status, and safe, responsible migration.
- Grow the poorest forty percent's incomes fastest
- Social, economic, and political inclusion for all
- Equal opportunity; end discriminatory practice
- Fiscal, wage, and social policies for equality
- Regulate and monitor global financial markets
- Stronger developing-country voice in global institutions
- Safe, orderly, responsible migration
- Special trade treatment for developing countries
- Direct development finance where need is greatest
- Cut the cost of sending remittances
Safe, affordable housing and transport. Inclusive planning, protection of cultural and natural heritage, reduced disaster risk, and cleaner urban air and waste systems.
- Safe, affordable housing and basic services
- Safe, affordable, sustainable transport for all
- Inclusive, sustainable urbanisation and planning
- Protect cultural and natural heritage
- Reduce deaths and losses from disasters
- Reduce the environmental impact of cities
- Universal access to safe green and public space
- Link urban, peri-urban, and rural planning
- Integrated disaster-risk and climate plans for cities
- Sustainable, resilient building where capacity is least
Sustainable management of natural resources across their whole lifecycle. Halved global food waste, sound handling of chemicals and waste, and sustainable business practice.
- Implement the global framework on sustainable consumption
- Sustainable management of natural resources
- Halve global per-capita food waste
- Sound management of chemicals and wastes
- Reduce waste through prevention, recycling, and reuse
- Sustainable practice and reporting in companies
- Sustainable public procurement
- Information for sustainable ways of living
- Scientific capacity for sustainable production
- Monitor the impacts of sustainable tourism
- Rationalise inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies
Strengthened resilience to climate hazards. Climate measures integrated into national policy, planning, and education, alongside committed international climate finance.
- Strengthen resilience to climate hazards and disasters
- Integrate climate measures into national policy
- Improve education and capacity on climate
- Deliver committed international climate finance
- Climate planning capacity where it is least
Prevention of marine pollution and ocean acidification. Sustainably managed fish stocks, an end to illegal and destructive fishing, and conservation of coastal and marine areas.
- Prevent and reduce marine pollution
- Protect and restore marine and coastal ecosystems
- Minimise ocean acidification
- End overfishing and illegal, destructive fishing
- Conserve coastal and marine areas
- Prohibit subsidies that drive overfishing
- Sustainable marine economies for island states
- Increase scientific knowledge and marine technology
- Access for small-scale fishers to resources and markets
- Implement the international law of the sea
Conservation and restoration of forests, wetlands, mountains, and drylands. Ends deforestation, combats desertification, and halts the loss of biodiversity and habitats.
- Conserve and restore land and freshwater ecosystems
- Halt deforestation; restore degraded forests
- Combat desertification; restore degraded land
- Conserve mountain ecosystems
- Halt biodiversity loss; protect threatened species
- Fair sharing of benefits from genetic resources
- End poaching and trafficking of protected species
- Prevent and control invasive species
- Ecosystem values in national planning
- Mobilise finance for biodiversity and ecosystems
- Finance sustainable forest management
- Global support against poaching and trafficking
Reduced violence in all its forms. Equal access to justice, an end to corruption and illicit financial flows, accountable institutions, and legal identity for all.
- Reduce all forms of violence and related deaths
- End abuse, exploitation, and violence against children
- Rule of law; equal access to justice
- Combat illicit finance, arms flows, and organised crime
- Substantially reduce corruption and bribery
- Effective, accountable, transparent institutions
- Responsive, inclusive, representative decision-making
- Stronger developing-country participation in global governance
- Legal identity for all, including birth registration
- Public access to information; protect fundamental freedoms
- Institutions that prevent violence and crime
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies
The means behind the other sixteen. Finance, technology, capacity building, open trade, and the partnerships and data required to deliver the agenda.
- Strengthen domestic resource mobilisation and tax capacity
- Deliver official development assistance commitments
- Mobilise additional finance for developing countries
- Assist with long-term debt sustainability
- Promote investment in least developed countries
- Cooperation and knowledge-sharing on science and technology
- Transfer of environmentally sound technologies
- Operationalise the technology bank for least developed countries
- Build capacity to implement the goals
- Universal, rules-based, open, equitable trade
- Increase developing countries' exports
- Duty-free market access for least developed countries
- Enhance global macroeconomic stability
- Policy coherence for sustainable development
- Respect each country's policy space and leadership
- Strengthen the global partnership for the goals
- Effective public, private, and civil partnerships
- Quality, disaggregated data for all
- Measures of progress beyond GDP
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