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Explain the importance of sustainable development and its goals.

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

  1. It is crucial to harmonize three core elements such as economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection.
  2. A set of 17 goals for the World’s future can be achieved before 2030 with three unanimous principles fixed by United Nations as Universality, Integration, and Transformation.
  • End Poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
  • Achieve gender equality and empower women. and girls
  • Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
  • Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modem energy for all.
  • Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all.
  • Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
  • Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
  • Ensure sustainable consumption and production pattern
  • Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
  • Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources
  • Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
  • Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
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Chapter 10: Environmental Economics - Model Questions [Page 235]

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Samacheer Kalvi Economics [English] Class 12 TN Board
Chapter 10 Environmental Economics
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