Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Abstract

First edition. "The UN Resolution Transforming our world: "the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" set in forth at 1 January 2016 enshrines 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including 169 targets and seems a conceptual, normative answer to the global fluid pattern of economic transformation, shortly: the globalisation. Against this background, the SDGs are embarking to the multileveled legal order, following different horizontal and vertical ways. The significance of the SDGs for the application of the law in the context of regulations of the international level within the UN and autonomous International Organisations appears to be clearly visible. On the vertical level regional cooperation such as the EU, ASEAN, CARICOM, are integrating the SDGs in different legal agreements and similar currently happens on the national level and not to forget the transnational level as well. This new Commentary covers the whole field of SDG law."-- Introduction -- Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere -- Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture -- Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages -- Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all -- Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls -- Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all -- Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all -- Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all -- Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation -- Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries -- Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable -- Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns -- Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts -- Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development -- Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss -- Goal 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 -- Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development -- Epilogue -- Transforming our world : the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.