The Five Messages of the Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations 2030 Agenda, launched in 2015, formulates 17 goals and a joint action plan for a good life everywhere in the world.

These major common objectives are based on the realisation that the global, i.e. worldwide, challenges of our time can only be overcome together. Injustice and destruction that are directed against people and the environment usually have far-reaching consequences that do not stop at borders. The preamble and joint declaration of the 2030 Agenda contains five central messages, which were then set as a total of 17 goals. The messages are:

People: We are determined to end poverty and hunger in all their forms and dimensions and ensure that all people can realise their full potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.

Planet: We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, the sustainable management of its natural resources and urgent action on climate change, so that the earth can meet the needs of present and future generations.

Prosperity: We are determined to ensure that all people can enjoy a prosperous and fulfilling life and that economic, social and technological progress takes place in harmony with nature.

Peace: We are determined to promote peaceful, just and inclusive societies that are free from fear and violence. Without peace there can be no sustainable development and without sustainable development there can be no peace.

Partnership: We are determined to mobilise the resources needed to implement this Agenda through a revitalised global partnership for sustainable development, based on a spirit of enhanced global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, and involving all countries, all stakeholders and all people.

Marisa Kretzschmar