In 2015, then-President Barack Obama committed the United States to achieving newly adopted U.N. global goals by 2030.

UN member countries adopted the Sustainable Development Goals with the aim of achieving “peace and prosperity for people and ...

“The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

What are the UN Sustainability Goals? In 2015 the United Nations agreed a set of ‘sustainable development’ goals that are focused on ending poverty around the world, protecting the planet and ...

UNICEF is the lead United Nations agency responsible for the global monitoring of the child-related Millennium Development Goals.