What are the UN's 17 sustainable goals?

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1. Eradicate poverty in all its forms, everywhere
2. Eradicate hunger, achieve food security and improved diet and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for everyone of all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and fair education of good quality and promote lifelong learning for all
5. Achieve equality and strengthen the position of all women and girls
6. Ensure accessibility and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Promote continuous, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and promote innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and between countries
11. Make cities and settlements inclusive, safe, flexible and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its effects
14. Conserve and sustainably use seas, lakes and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Sustainable forestry, stopping desertification, slowing down and reversing land degradation and halting 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 tools for implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

The work of implementing the agenda follows several important principles, including that:

• the agenda is universal, which means that it addresses all the countries of the world, and that all countries have a joint responsibility for its implementation
• the goals are integrated and indivisible. This means that no goal can be achieved at the expense of another - and success is required in all areas for the goals to be achieved
• no one should be left out. The agenda must be implemented with special regard to the people and communities who have the worst conditions