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The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an <a href="/sustainabledevelopment/">ambitious post-2015 development agenda</a>. </p> </div> <h3>News on Millennium Development Goals</h3> <h4><a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/"> Launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals </a></h4> <div style="width:175px; font-size:85%; float:left; align:center; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 2%; padding-bottom: 2%;"> <p><a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/"><img src="images/mdg_graphic_MDG1.jpg" alt="MDG Goal 1"></a></p> </div> <p>As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative<a href="https://undocs.org/A/RES/70/1"> 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</a> adopted by world leaders last September at the United Nations. </p> <p> </p> <p>The new Agenda calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next 15 years. </p> <p><br /> “<a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/12/sustainable-development-goals-kick-off-with-start-of-new-year/">The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals</a> 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. “They are a to-do list for people and planet, and a blueprint for success.”</p> <br /> <h4><a href="pdf/MDG_Gap_2015_E_web.pdf"> The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2015 is now available </a></h4> <div style="width:150px; font-size:85%; float:left; align:center; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 2%; padding-bottom: 2%;"> <p><a href="pdf/MDG_Gap_2015_E_web.pdf"><img src="images/MDG-Gap-2015.jpg" alt="MDG Gap Task Force Report 2015" width="150" height="204"></a></p> </div> <p>The “Taking Stock of the Global Partnership for Development” report of the UN MDG Gap Task Force monitors the recent achievements and challenges in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goal 8, while looking ahead towards the new sustainable development agenda that will be adopted by world leaders at the Sustainable Development Summit this month (September 25–27), and which will include the launch of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals. <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf">Download the </a><a href="pdf/MDG_Gap_2015_E_web.pdf">MDG Gap Task Force Report 2015</a> <img src="../common/images/icons/ico_pdf.gif" width="14" height="14" alt="PDF document" /></p> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <h4><a href="news.shtml"> Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 now available</a></h4> <div style="width:190px; font-size:85%; float:left; align:center; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 2%; padding-bottom: 2%;"> <p><a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf"><img src="http://www.un.org/es/millenniumgoals/images/report_2015.jpg" alt="Millennium Development Goals Report 201" width="175" height="117"></a></p> </div> <p>This report is based on a master set of data that has been compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, in response to the wishes of the General Assembly for periodic assessment of progress towards the MDGs. <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf">Download the Millennium Development Goals Report 2015</a> <img src="../common/images/icons/ico_pdf.gif" width="14" height="14" alt="PDF document" /></p> <br /><br /> <h4><a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/06/journey-towards-bold-climate-action-is-at-a-critical-moment-un-general-assembly-told/">‘Journey towards bold climate action is at a critical moment,’ UN General Assembly told</a></h4> <div style="width:190px; font-size:85%; float:left; align:center; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 2%; padding-bottom: 2%;"> <p><img src="images/02-29-2012-horndrought.jpg" alt="drought in Horn of Africa" width="175" height="117" /></p> </div> <p>Development cannot be sustainable if it does not address the challenge of climate change, United Nations <a href="http://www.un.org/sg/">Secretary-General</a> Ban Ki-moon told Member States today as he opened a High-Level Event on Climate Change convened in New York by the President of the UN General Assembly, Sam Kutesa.</p> <br /><br /> <br /> <h4><a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/06/pope-francis-and-un-agency-discuss-sustainable-future-of-agriculture/">Pope Francis and UN agency discuss sustainable future of agriculture</a></h4> <div style="width:190px; font-size:85%; float:left; align:center; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 2%; padding-bottom: 2%;"> <p><img src="images/06-11-2015Pope_Food.jpg" alt="Pope Francis (centre) with delegates to the 39th FAO Conference during a special audience at the Vatican" width="175" height="117" /></p> </div> <p>Addressing over a hundred delegates attending a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Rome, Pope Francis today urged Member States to work toward combatting food waste, reducing the volatility of food prices, and creating a sense of global solidarity to ensure food security for all people.</p> <br /> <br /><br /> <h4><a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/06/un-invites-worlds-seven-billion-people-to-become-agents-of-change-on-world-environment-day/">UN invites world’s seven billion people to become agents of change on World Environment Day</a></h4> <div style="width:190px; font-size:85%; float:left; align:center; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 2%; padding-bottom: 2%;"> <p><img src="images/05-06-2015Food_Forest.jpg" alt="sugar cane and soybean plantations" width="175" height="117" /></p> </div> <p>The United Nations invited each of the seven billion people on the planet to mark this year’s World Environment Day on 5 June, stressing the need of sustainable consumption worldwide.</p> <br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <h4><a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/06/give-young-people-decent-jobs-and-they-will-create-a-better-future-un-chief/"> ‘Give young people decent jobs and they will create a better future’ – UN chief</a></h4> <div style="width:190px; font-size:85%; float:left; align:center; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 2%; padding-bottom: 2%;"> <p><img src="images/06-01-2015Ivoire_Young.jpg" alt="Pope Francis (centre) with delegates to the 39th FAO Conference during a special audience at the Vatican" width="175" height="117" /></p> </div> <p>When young people have decent jobs, political weight, negotiating muscle and real influence in the world, they will create a better future, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as he kicked off a Headquarters event on empowering youth through employment.</p> <br /> <br /><br /> <p style="text-align: right; 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