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                    United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

                    Crowds of people at an outdoor event in the evening, near the Melbourne CBD
                    The overarching framework for global sustainable development, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, sets out 17 Sustainable Development Goals for all countries to achieve economic progress, social inclusion and environmental sustainability by the year 2030.

                    The goals are a call-to-action for countries to promote prosperity while protecting our planet, now and into the future – with a central promise to leave no one behind. 

                    Designed with national governments in mind, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires action from a broad range of stakeholders and partnerships. As a major capital city, we have a key role to play in localising and addressing the issues articulated in the goals.

                    The Goals are a guiding framework to ensure our initiatives achieve holistic sustainable development. We must play a role, and partner with others to address the challenges we all face, to ensure no one is left behind. 

                    City of Melbourne has taken the lead and conducted a Voluntary Local Review (VLR) on the city’s progress towards the Goals.

                    In an Australian-first, we have localised the Goals to assess its tackling global challenges with local action – to end poverty, protect the planet and support peace and prosperity by 2030.

                    The VLR provides an important benchmark for Council and its community to

                    • celebrate strong progress against some goals
                    • to identify whether we’re on track to achieve our targets and areas which require further investigation and improvement.

                    Read our Voluntary Local Review 2022, unanimously endorsed by Council on 14 June 2022. 

                    The 17 Sustainable Development Goals

                    The overarching framework for global sustainable development Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets out 17 Sustainable Development Goals for all countries to achieve by the year 2030. The goals are a call to action for all countries to promote prosperity while protecting our planet, now and into the future – with a central promise to leave no one behind.

                    While designed with national governments in mind, we recognise the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires action from a broad range of stakeholders and partnerships. As a major capital city, we have a key role to play in localising and addressing the issues articulated in the goals.

                    For further information, see Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

                    Visit Participate Melbourne to learn more about the Goals, action you can take and the community consultation we undertook during the development of our VLR.

                    We have recently published our VLR indicator data on our Open Data Platform. If you would like to view our data and how the city is tracking on the Goals visit Open Data Platform. ​

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