In September 2015, within the framework of the 70th UN General Assembly at the UN summit on the adoption of the Development Agenda for the period after 2015, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, N.A. Nazarbayev, along with other leaders of the UN member states, signed a new document for further global development, stressing that the goals and targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (the SDGs) fully coincide with the priorities and tasks of Kazakhstan.
The SDGs are a comprehensive universal set of goals and indicators until 2030 aimed at improving the quality of life of citizens, socio-economic development and environmental sustainability of states.
The SDGs consist of 17 objectives to be achieved by 2030, as well as related 169 tasks and 242 indicators.
The SDGs are called upon to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development through the integration of three components: economic, social and environmental. The existence of a close relationship between the three components of sustainable development is becoming particularly relevant in modern conditions, when the serious consequences of climate change and the need to conserve scarce natural resources and move to a green economy are becoming apparent.
The goals of sustainable development until 2030:
Goal 1. The universal elimination of poverty in all its forms.
Goal 2. Eliminate hunger, ensure food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agricultural development.
Goal 3. Providing a healthy lifestyle and promoting well-being for all at any age.
Goal 4. Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Goal 5. Ensuring gender equality and empowering all women and girls.
Goal 6. Ensure availability and rational use of water resources and sanitation for all.
Goal 7. Providing access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy sources for all.
Goal 8. Promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
Goal 9. Creating a stable infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and innovation.
Goal 10. Reducing inequalities within and between countries
Goal 11. Ensuring the openness, security, vitality and environmental sustainability of cities and settlements.
Goal 12. Ensuring transition to rational consumption and production patterns.
Goal 13. Take urgent measures to combat climate change and its consequences.
Goal 14. Conservation and rational use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Goal 15. Protecting and restoring terrestrial ecosystems and promoting their rational use, rational forest management, combating desertification, cessation and reversal of land degradation and cessation of the loss of biological diversity.
Goal 16. Promoting the building of a peaceful and open society for sustainable development, ensuring access to justice for all and creating effective, accountable and participatory institutions at all levels.
Goal 17. Strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.