– Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

This Goal comprises of 8 targets 9.1 to 9.5 and 9.a to 9.c.

These goals 9.1 to 9.5 aim to develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure to support economic development and human well-being, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, increase access of small-scale enterprises to financial services, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, and enhancing quality and quantity of research and technological capabilities of industrial sector in all countries. Target 9.a to 9.c emphasize on facilitating sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries, supporting domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, and increasing access to information and communications technology and providing universal access to internet in least developed countries by 2020.

– Reduce inequality within and among countries

This Goal comprises 10 targets 10.1 to 10.7 and 10.a to 10.c.

These targets 10.1 to 10.7 aim to progressively achieve and sustain income growth of bottom 40% population at higher than national average, empower and promote social, economic and political inclusion of all, ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, achieve greater equality, improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institution, ensure enhanced r=enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision making in economic institutions, and facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people. Targets 10.a to 10.c aim to implement, particularly for least developed countries, the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, encourage official development assistance and financial flows to states, and reduce to less than 3% the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5%.

– Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

This Goal comprises 10 targets 11.1 to 11.7 and 11.a to 11.c.

These targets 11.1 to 11.7 aim to ensure access to adequate, safe and affordable housing, transport system and upgrading slums and expanding public transport. Enhancing inclusive and sustainable urbanization, protecting and safeguarding the world’s cultural and natural heritage, significantly reducing deaths and also direct and indirect economic losses caused by disasters, reducing adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, and providing universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons with disabilities. Targets 11.a to 11.c aim to strengthen national and regional development planning, adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards adaptation to climate change, and supporting least developed countries in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials.

– Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

This Goal comprises 11 targets 12.1 to 12.8 and 12.a to 12.c.

These targets 12.1 to 12.8 aim to implement programmes on sustainable consumption and Production Patterns, achieving efficient use of natural resources, halve per capita food waste, achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals, reduce waste generation, encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices, promote sustainable public procurement practices, and ensure availability of information for sustainable development and lifestyle choices that are in harmony with nature. Targets 12.a to 12.c aim to support developing countries in strengthening capacity to move towards more sustainable pattern of consumption and production, develop and implement tools to monitor development impacts for sustainable tourism, and rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions in accordance with national circumstances.

– Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

This Goal comprises 5 targets 13.1 to 13.3 and 13.a to 13.b.

These targets 13.1 to 13.3 aim to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries, integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning, and improve education, awareness-raising and human institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning. Targets 13.a and 13.b aim to implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries, and promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities.

– Conserve and sustainable use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

This Goal comprises 10 targets 14.1 to 14.7 and 14.a to 14.c.

These targets 14.1 to 14.7 aim prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans in order to restore fish stocks, conserve coastal and marine areas, prohibit certain fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies which contribute to illegal, unreported and unregularized fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, and increase the economic benefits to small island developing States and least developed countries from sustainable use of marine resources. Targets 14.a to 14.c aim to increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine diversity to the development of developing countries, provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets, and enhance conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Conventions on the Law of Sea.

– Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

This Goal comprises 12 targets 15.1 to 15.9 and 15.a to 15.c.

These targets 15.1 to 15.9 aim to ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services in line with obligations under international agreements, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally, combat desertification and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world, ensure conservation of mountain ecosystem in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development, take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats and halt the loss of biodiversity, promote fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources as internationally agreed, take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species or flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species, and integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts. Targets 15.a to 15.c aim to Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems, mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation, and enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.

– Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

This Goal comprises 12 targets 16.1 to 16.10 and 16.a to 16.b. These targets 16.1 to 16.10 aim to significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates, end abuse, exploitation and trafficking and all forms of violence and torture of children, promote rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure access to justice for all, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms, develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels, ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels, broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance, provide legal identity for all, and ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms. Targets 16.a and 16.b aim to strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime, and promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

– Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

This Goal comprises 19 targets 17.1 to 17.19.

17.1 – Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

17.2 –  Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

17.3 – Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

17.4 – Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress

17.5 – Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

17.6 – Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

17.7 – Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed

17.8 – Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

17.9 – Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

17.10 – Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda

17.11 – Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020

17.12 – Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

17.13 – Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence

17.14 – Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

17.15 – Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development

17.16 – Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

17.17 – Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

17.18 – By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

17.19 – By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries