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Discuss the ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ as set by the United Nations.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 15 marks
  • India and the UN System

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the core of Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015 to succeed the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Negotiated in a thirty-seat Open Working Group after Rio+20 (2012), they set 17 goals and 169 targets for 2030. They…

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  • What the Goals set out
  • How they differ from the MDGs
  • Significance, with India as architect and implementer
  • Critique
  • The 2026 checkpoint
  • Conclusion
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