Mobilized News · A connected guide to the global goals Seventeen goals. One hundred sixty-nine targets. One connected agenda for people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership. The big idea Food affects health. Energy affects poverty. Housing affects education. Work affects inequality. Climate affects water, migration and peace. The SDGs were designed as an integrated agenda: progress in one area can unlock progress elsewhere—and failure in one system can undermine several goals at once. Explore the agenda Eradicate extreme poverty everywhere by 2030. At least halve the share of people living in poverty in all its dimensions, using national definitions. Build effective social protection systems and achieve substantial coverage for poor and vulnerable people. Ensure equal access to economic resources, basic services, land and property, technology and financial services. Build resilience to climate, economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters, especially for vulnerable people. Mobilize adequate and predictable resources to help developing countries end poverty in all its dimensions. Create pro-poor and gender-sensitive policy frameworks that support investment in poverty eradication. End hunger and ensure year-round access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food for everyone. End all forms of malnutrition and address the nutrition needs of children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, and older people. Double the productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, with secure access to land, inputs, knowledge, finance and markets. Make food production systems sustainable, resilient and capable of protecting ecosystems and soil. Protect the genetic diversity of seeds, crops and farmed animals and share benefits from genetic resources fairly. Increase investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural research, extension, technology and gene banks, especially in developing countries. Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including harmful export subsidies. Improve food commodity markets and timely market information to help limit extreme food-price volatility. Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to fewer than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births. End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five. End major epidemics and combat communicable diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis and neglected tropical diseases. Cut premature deaths from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health and well-being. Strengthen prevention and treatment for substance-use disorders, including harmful alcohol use. Reduce deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes. Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health services, information and education. Achieve universal health coverage, including financial protection, essential services, medicines and vaccines. Substantially reduce illness and deaths caused by hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution. Strengthen implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Support research, development and affordable access to vaccines and medicines, especially for diseases affecting developing countries. Increase health financing and strengthen the health workforce, especially in developing countries and small island states. Strengthen early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health threats. Ensure all children complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education with effective learning outcomes. Ensure access to quality early-childhood development, care and pre-primary education. Ensure equal access to affordable, quality technical, vocational and tertiary education. Increase the number of young people and adults with relevant technical and vocational skills for work and entrepreneurship. Eliminate education disparities and ensure equal access for vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities and Indigenous peoples. Ensure all young people and a substantial share of adults achieve literacy and numeracy. Ensure learners gain knowledge and skills for sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, peace and global citizenship. Build and upgrade safe, inclusive, disability- and gender-sensitive education facilities and learning environments. Expand scholarships for students from developing countries, especially least developed and small island states. Increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation in developing countries. End discrimination against women and girls everywhere. Eliminate violence, trafficking and sexual exploitation affecting women and girls. Eliminate harmful practices including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation. Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through services, infrastructure, social protection and shared responsibility. Ensure full participation and equal opportunities for women in political, economic and public leadership. Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. Reform laws and systems so women have equal rights to economic resources, land, property, inheritance, finance and natural resources. Use enabling technology, especially information and communications technology, to strengthen women’s empowerment. Adopt and strengthen policies and enforceable laws for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water. Ensure adequate sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, with attention to vulnerable groups. Improve water quality, reduce pollution and untreated wastewater, and increase recycling and safe reuse. Increase water-use efficiency and manage freshwater sustainably to reduce water scarcity. Implement integrated water-resource management, including transboundary cooperation. Protect and restore water-related ecosystems including wetlands, rivers, forests, mountains, aquifers and lakes. Expand international cooperation and capacity building for water and sanitation in developing countries. Strengthen local community participation in water and sanitation management. Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services. Substantially increase renewable energy’s share of the global energy mix. Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency. Expand international cooperation, research, technology access and investment for clean energy and energy efficiency. Expand infrastructure and technology for modern, sustainable energy in developing countries, especially least developed and small island states. Sustain per-capita economic growth, including strong growth in least developed countries. Raise productivity through diversification, technology, innovation and higher-value activity. Support productive activity, decent jobs, entrepreneurship, innovation and the growth and formalization of small and medium enterprises. Improve resource efficiency and work to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation. Achieve full and productive employment, decent work and equal pay for work of equal value. Substantially reduce the share of young people not in employment, education or training. End forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour. Protect labour rights and promote safe working environments, including for migrant and precarious workers. Develop sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products. Strengthen financial institutions and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services. Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, especially least developed countries. Develop and implement strategies for youth employment. Build reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure with affordable and equitable access. Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and expand industry’s contribution to employment and economic output. Improve small enterprises’ access to affordable finance, value chains and markets. Upgrade infrastructure and industry for greater resource efficiency and cleaner technology. Expand scientific research, innovation capacity, researchers and public and private R&D investment. Support sustainable and resilient infrastructure in developing countries through financial, technical and technological support. Support domestic technology development, research, diversification and value addition in developing countries. Significantly expand access to information and communications technology and affordable internet in least developed countries. Achieve and sustain income growth for the bottom 40% of the population faster than the national average. Promote the social, economic and political inclusion of everyone regardless of status or identity. Ensure equal opportunity by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate action. Use fiscal, wage and social-protection policies to progressively achieve greater equality. Improve regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions. Strengthen developing countries’ representation and voice in global economic and financial institutions. Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration through well-managed policies. Apply special and differential treatment for developing countries in line with World Trade Organization agreements. Direct development assistance and financial flows toward countries with the greatest needs. Reduce migrant remittance costs to below 3% and eliminate corridors with costs above 5%. Ensure access to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums. Provide safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport, with attention to people in vulnerable situations. Strengthen inclusive, sustainable urbanization and participatory settlement planning. Protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage. Reduce deaths, people affected and economic losses from disasters, especially among vulnerable people. Reduce cities’ environmental impacts, including air pollution and waste-management impacts. Provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible green and public spaces. Strengthen positive economic, social and environmental links among urban, peri-urban and rural areas through planning. Increase integrated city policies for inclusion, resource efficiency, climate action and disaster resilience. Support least developed countries in building sustainable and resilient buildings using local materials. Implement sustainable consumption and production programmes, with developed countries taking the lead. Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources. Halve food waste at retail and consumer levels and reduce losses across production and supply chains. Manage chemicals and wastes safely across their life cycles and reduce releases to air, water and soil. Substantially reduce waste through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse. Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices and integrate sustainability information into reporting. Promote sustainable public procurement. Ensure people have information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature. Support developing countries’ scientific and technological capacity for sustainable consumption and production. Develop tools to monitor sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products. Reform inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies while protecting poor and affected communities. Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters. Integrate climate-change measures into national policies, strategies and planning. Improve climate education, awareness, capacity, mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning. Deliver international climate-finance commitments and fully operationalize mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund. Build climate-planning and management capacity in least developed and small island states, including for women, youth and local communities. Prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution, including land-based pollution, debris and nutrient pollution. Sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems and strengthen their resilience and restoration. Minimize and address ocean acidification through scientific cooperation. Regulate fishing, end overfishing and illegal and destructive practices, and restore fish stocks using science-based management. Conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas consistent with law and science. Eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity, overfishing and illegal fishing. Increase economic benefits to small island and least developed countries from sustainable marine resources, fisheries, aquaculture and tourism. Increase marine science, research capacity and technology transfer, especially for developing and small island states. Provide small-scale artisanal fishers access to marine resources and markets. Conserve and sustainably use oceans by implementing international law, including the law of the sea. Conserve, restore and sustainably use terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services. Promote sustainable forest management, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and increase reforestation. Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, and strive for a land-degradation-neutral world. Conserve mountain ecosystems and biodiversity so they continue providing essential benefits. Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss and prevent extinction of threatened species. Promote fair and equitable sharing of benefits from genetic resources and appropriate access to them. End poaching and trafficking of protected species and address demand and supply for illegal wildlife products. Prevent and reduce the impact of invasive alien species and control or eradicate priority species. Integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into planning, development processes and accounts. Mobilize and significantly increase finance for biodiversity and ecosystems. Mobilize finance for sustainable forest management and incentives for conservation and reforestation. Strengthen global support against poaching and trafficking, including by expanding sustainable local livelihoods. Significantly reduce violence and related death rates everywhere. End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence against children. Promote rule of law and ensure equal access to justice. Reduce illicit financial and arms flows, recover stolen assets and combat organized crime. Substantially reduce corruption and bribery. Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions. Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making. Broaden and strengthen developing countries’ participation in global governance institutions. Provide legal identity for all, including birth registration. Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms. Strengthen national institutions and international cooperation to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime. Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development. Strengthen domestic resource mobilization and tax and revenue capacity, including international support where needed. Fulfil official development-assistance commitments, including targets for least developed countries. Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources. Help developing countries achieve long-term debt sustainability through coordinated financing, relief and restructuring. Adopt and implement investment-promotion systems for least developed countries. Expand international cooperation and knowledge sharing in science, technology and innovation. Promote development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms. Strengthen the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity in least developed countries, including enabling technology. Increase effective capacity-building support so developing countries can implement the Sustainable Development Goals. Promote an open, rules-based, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the WTO. Significantly increase developing-country exports, including least developed countries’ share of global exports. Provide lasting duty-free and quota-free market access for least developed countries, with simple transparent rules of origin. Strengthen global macroeconomic stability through policy coordination and coherence. Improve policy coherence for sustainable development. Respect each country’s policy space and leadership in poverty-eradication and sustainable-development policy. Strengthen global multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize knowledge, expertise, technology and finance. Encourage effective public, public-private and civil-society partnerships. Increase high-quality, timely and disaggregated data and strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries. Develop measures of sustainable-development progress that complement GDP and strengthen statistical capacity. No matching goals or targets. Try a broader search. Follow the connections The 2030 Agenda is often summarized through five connected ideas. These are not rigid boxes; many goals belong in more than one. How to read the 169 targets The large number identifies one of the 17 headline goals. Targets such as 6.1 or 11.2 usually describe outcomes or conditions to achieve. Targets such as 6.a or 11.b often describe means of implementation—finance, technology, capacity or policy support. Many targets use 2030, while others originally set 2020 or 2025 deadlines. This explorer preserves those time signals rather than silently rewriting them. Target descriptions in this explorer are concise plain-English summaries of the official United Nations targets, not replacements for the formal wording or indicator framework. Find your starting point Choose where you are acting. The explorer will suggest a practical way to use the goals as a local systems map. The Mobilized question The 169 targets make one thing clear: poverty, food, health, work, infrastructure, rights, nature and peace are connected. The practical challenge is to find the leverage point where action in one place strengthens several goals at the same time. Source basis: United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the official United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target pages. No external links are displayed in this experience. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals
The goals are not 17 separate problems.
Start with a goal—or search across all 169 targets.
01
Goal 1
No Poverty
End poverty by combining income security, social protection, basic services, equal access to resources and resilience.
7 targets
02
Goal 2
Zero Hunger
Build food systems that end hunger and malnutrition while supporting small producers, resilient agriculture and fair markets.
8 targets
03
Goal 3
Good Health and Well-Being
Prevent avoidable illness and death while expanding universal, affordable, resilient health systems.
13 targets
04
Goal 4
Quality Education
Guarantee equitable learning from early childhood through adulthood, including skills, inclusion, citizenship and qualified teachers.
10 targets
05
Goal 5
Gender Equality
End discrimination and violence while expanding women’s rights, leadership, economic power, care recognition and reproductive autonomy.
9 targets
06
Goal 6
Clean Water and Sanitation
Ensure safe water and sanitation while protecting watersheds, improving efficiency and involving communities in management.
8 targets
07
Goal 7
Affordable and Clean Energy
Provide universal modern energy while accelerating renewables, efficiency, infrastructure, finance and technology cooperation.
5 targets
08
Goal 8
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Create decent work and productive economies while protecting labour rights, young people and natural resources.
12 targets
09
Goal 9
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, sustainable industry and innovation while expanding finance, research and digital access.
8 targets
10
Goal 10
Reduced Inequalities
Reduce economic, social and political inequality within and among countries, including through inclusion, migration and financial reform.
10 targets
11
Goal 11
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Make settlements affordable, connected, inclusive, low-impact and resilient to disasters and climate change.
10 targets
12
Goal 12
Responsible Consumption and Production
Redesign consumption and production around resource efficiency, less waste, safer materials, transparency and sustainable procurement.
11 targets
13
Goal 13
Climate Action
Build climate resilience, integrate climate into policy, improve education and capacity, and mobilize finance.
5 targets
14
Goal 14
Life Below Water
Protect oceans by reducing pollution, restoring ecosystems, ending destructive fishing and strengthening marine science and fair access.
10 targets
15
Goal 15
Life on Land
Protect forests, land, freshwater and biodiversity while restoring degraded ecosystems and stopping illegal wildlife trade.
12 targets
16
Goal 16
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Reduce violence, expand justice, protect rights and information, and build accountable, inclusive institutions.
12 targets
17
Goal 17
Partnerships for the Goals
Build the finance, trade, technology, data, capacity and partnerships needed to implement the entire agenda.
19 targets
One agenda. Five ways to see the system.
The goal is the destination. The targets describe what has to change.
You do not have to work on all 17 goals at once.
What changes when we stop treating the goals as a checklist—and start seeing the system?
Interconnected Goals for a Sustainable, Ecologically sensible world that works
17Goals
169Targets
2030Shared horizon
Use this explorer as a systems map. Open any goal to reveal its targets, then search across all 169 to find the commitments connected to the issue you care about.
People
Economy
Rights
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.a
1.b
People
Food
Nature
Economy
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.a
2.b
2.c
People
Health
Environment
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.a
3.b
3.c
3.d
People
Education
Work
Rights
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.a
4.b
4.c
People
Rights
Governance
Care
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.a
5.b
5.c
People
Water
Nature
Infrastructure
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.a
6.b
Energy
Infrastructure
Economy
Climate
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.a
7.b
Work
Economy
Rights
Production
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9
8.10
8.a
8.b
Infrastructure
Innovation
Economy
Technology
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
9.5
9.a
9.b
9.c
Rights
Economy
Governance
Migration
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.a
10.b
10.c
Cities
Housing
Mobility
Climate
Infrastructure
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
11.6
11.7
11.a
11.b
11.c
Production
Circularity
Food
Climate
Economy
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
12.5
12.6
12.7
12.8
12.a
12.b
12.c
Climate
Resilience
Finance
Education
13.1
13.2
13.3
13.a
13.b
Nature
Oceans
Food
Economy
14.1
14.2
14.3
14.4
14.5
14.6
14.7
14.a
14.b
14.c
Nature
Land
Biodiversity
Economy
15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.a
15.b
15.c
Rights
Peace
Governance
Justice
16.1
16.2
16.3
16.4
16.5
16.6
16.7
16.8
16.9
16.10
16.a
16.b
Partnerships
Finance
Trade
Technology
Data
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
17.5
17.6
17.7
17.8
17.9
17.10
17.11
17.12
17.13
17.14
17.15
17.16
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17.19
Housing→Health→Education→Work→Inequality→Peace
The systems lesson: The SDGs are most useful when they reveal dependencies. If a project advances one goal while damaging another, the design is incomplete.
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