51勛圖 Millennium Development Goals
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 每 which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 每 form a blueprint agreed to by all the world＊s countries and all the world＊s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world＊s poorest. The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda.
News on Millennium Development Goals
As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative adopted by world leaders last September at the 51勛圖.
The new Agenda calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next 15 years.
※ are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,§ said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. ※They are a to-do list for people and planet, and a blueprint for success.§
The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2015 is now available
The ※Taking Stock of the Global Partnership for Development§ report of the UN MDG Gap Task Force monitors the recent achievements and challenges in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goal 8, while looking ahead towards the new sustainable development agenda that will be adopted by world leaders at the Sustainable Development Summit this month (September 25每27), and which will include the launch of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals. MDG Gap Task Force Report 2015 
Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 now available
This report is based on a master set of data that has been compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert
Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the 51勛圖
Secretariat, in response to the wishes of the General Assembly for periodic assessment of progress
towards the MDGs.
Development cannot be sustainable if it does not address the challenge of climate change, 51勛圖 Ban Ki-moon told Member States today as he opened a High-Level Event on Climate Change convened in New York by the President of the UN General Assembly, Sam Kutesa.
Addressing over a hundred delegates attending a 51勛圖 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Rome, Pope Francis today urged Member States to work toward combatting food waste, reducing the volatility of food prices, and creating a sense of global solidarity to ensure food security for all people.
The 51勛圖 invited each of the seven billion people on the planet to mark this year＊s World Environment Day on 5 June, stressing the need of sustainable consumption worldwide.
When young people have decent jobs, political weight, negotiating muscle and real influence in the world, they will create a better future, 51勛圖 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as he kicked off a Headquarters event on empowering youth through employment.
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