Currently, people living on less than $1.25 a day are treated as poor and vulnerable. The goal is to enable them to cross the current poverty line and achieve economic security.

• Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems for all
• Ensure equal access to economic resources and basic services
• Build resilience of the poor to climate-related extreme events

End all forms of malnutrition. 815 million people suffer from hunger globally — the first rise in over a decade. With 660 million projected to face hunger by 2030, urgent action is needed.

• Double agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers
• Ensure sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices
• Increase investment through enhanced international cooperation
• Ensure proper functioning of food commodity markets and supply chains

Promote health and well-being across the lifespan through prevention, treatment, and access to essential health services for all populations.

• Reduce global maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
• End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age
• End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases
• Achieve universal health coverage and access to quality essential health services

Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality education. Increase youth with relevant skills for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

• Equal access to affordable quality technical, vocational, and tertiary education
• Eliminate gender disparities in education at all levels
• Increase supply of qualified teachers through international cooperation
• Ensure access for persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples

End all forms of discrimination against women and girls everywhere. Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular ICT, to promote the empowerment of women.

• Give women equal rights to economic resources and property ownership
• Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Enhance use of ICT to promote women's empowerment
• End all harmful practices against women and girls globally

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all — a fundamental human right and prerequisite for human dignity and sustainable development.

• Universal access to safe and affordable drinking water
• End open defecation and provide access to sanitation and hygiene
• Improve water quality and reduce pollution into water bodies
• Protect and restore water-related ecosystems including wetlands

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all — a foundation for nearly every major challenge and opportunity in the world today.

• Universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services
• Substantially increase the share of renewable energy in the global mix
• Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
• Promote investment in energy infrastructure for developing countries

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all through higher productivity and technological advancement.

• Higher economic productivity through technology and innovation tools
• Decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation
• Reduce proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
• End forced labour, trafficking and child labour by 2025

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation — the foundation for economic development and human well-being.

• Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure
• Upgrade technological capabilities of industrial sectors in developing countries
• Enhance scientific research and upgrade technological capabilities
• Universal affordable internet access in least developed countries

Reduce inequality by ensuring income growth of the bottom 40% of the population, empowering social, economic, and political inclusion regardless of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, or religion.

• Income growth of the bottom 40% of the population at a rate above national average
• Enhanced representation of developing countries in decision-making
• Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration
• Implement improved wage and social protection policies globally

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable through safe affordable housing, sustainable transport, and participatory settlement planning.

• Ensure access to safe and affordable housing and basic services
• Safeguard the world's cultural and natural heritage
• Substantially increase the number of sustainable cities and settlements
• Provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible green spaces

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns through efficient use of natural resources and environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes.

• Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
• Halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level by 2030
• Environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes throughout lifecycle
• Phase out harmful fossil-fuel subsidies and restructure taxation

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts — recognising that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and threatens to undo decades of development gains.

• Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
• Improve education, awareness and capacity on climate change mitigation
• Mobilise $100 billion annually to address needs of developing countries
• Promote mechanisms for climate change-related planning in least developed nations

Conserve and sustainably use oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development — recognising that oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface and regulate climate and weather patterns.

• Reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities
• Effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing and illegal fishing by 2020
• Conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas
• Enhance conservation and sustainable use of ocean resources through law

Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt biodiversity loss — foundational to food security and rural livelihoods.

• Conserve, restore and sustainably use terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
• Promote sustainable management of all types of forests and reforestation
• Combat desertification and restore degraded land and soil
• Halt biodiversity loss, protect threatened species and prevent extinction

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

• Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
• End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against children
• Promote rule of law and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels

Revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development — mobilising means of implementation including finance, technology, capacity-building, and multi-stakeholder partnerships.

• Strengthen domestic resource mobilisation in developing countries
• Enhance technology transfer to developing countries on mutually agreed terms
• Promote multi-stakeholder partnerships to share knowledge and resources
• Encourage effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships