
Paris Agreement on Climate Change (December 2015).Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015.Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development (July 2015).Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015).2015 was a landmark year for multilateralism and international policy shaping, with the adoption of several major agreements:.The process culminated in the subsequent adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with 17 SDGs at its core, at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015. In January 2015, the General Assembly began the negotiation process on the post-2015 development agenda.In 2013, the General Assembly set up a 30-member Open Working Group to develop a proposal on the SDGs.The Rio +20 outcome also contained other measures for implementing sustainable development, including mandates for future programmes of work in development financing, small island developing states and more. At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document "The Future We Want" in which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs and to establish the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002, reaffirmed the global community's commitments to poverty eradication and the environment, and built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration by including more emphasis on multilateral partnerships.The Summit led to the elaboration of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015. Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at the Millennium Summit in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York.In June 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.

As a response to the unprecedented pandemic-induced changes affecting the region and the world, the MDBs swiftly mobilized substantial resources, with an aggregate financial response that exceeded $210 billion by mid-2020 and an estimated $360 billion in additional support anticipated by the end of 2021.Do you know all 17 SDGs? History Implementation Progress SDGs Icons. Meeting the SDGs has become increasingly complex as humankind faces the most threatening pandemic in a century, bringing new challenges for public health, social well-being, and economic growth.

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In addition, they have jointly prepared a series of documents, which are available below, regarding MDB joint approaches to a number of key aspects of the 2030 Agenda. To that end the IDB Group and its sister MDBs articulated a collective vision including goals and actions, and released them in a joint statement and discussion note in 2015 entitled From billions to trillions: financing the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, and a subsequent implementation document entitled Ideas to Action.

Scaling up development finance and implementing the actions to meet the ambitious goals of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda requires coordination and collaboration among diverse actors, including across the multilateral development banks (MDBs).
