Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Description of the regional situation of the objectives and their targets, challenges and opportunities for their implementation and follow-up, lessons learned and good practices, recommendations and key messages from Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes activities, news, resources and tools for implementation.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda and demonstrate a comprehensive, indivisible vision and renewed international collaboration. Together, they build a vision of the future we want.

Through these 17 SDGs with their 169 targets and 231 indicators, the member states of the United Nations have firmly expressed that this agenda is universal and profoundly transformative. With this agenda, old paradigms where some countries donate while others receive conditional aid are left behind. This agenda also seeks to express the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and build a true partnership for development in which all countries participate.

The SDGs...

  • Are universal: The SDGs constitute a truly universal frame of reference and will apply to all countries. On the path to sustainable development, all countries have unfinished business and all face both common and individual challenges in achieving the multiple dimensions of sustainable development outlined in the SDGs.

  • They are transformative: As an agenda for "people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership," the 2030 Agenda offers a paradigm shift from the traditional development model to sustainable development that integrates economic, social and environmental dimensions. The 2030 Agenda provides a transformative vision for sustainable development centered on people and planet, based on human rights, and the dignity of people.

  • They are civilizational: The 2030 Agenda seeks to leave no one behind and envisions "a world of universal respect for equality and non-discrimination" between and within countries, including on equality, by confirming the responsibility of all States to "respect, protect and promote human rights, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability or other status."

The SDGs are also a planning and monitoring tool for countries, both at the national and local levels. Thanks to their long-term vision, they will support each country on its path towards sustained, inclusive and environmentally sound development, through public policies and planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation instruments.