Juliana Costa
Country Portfolio: India
Sustainable Development Goals
10/09/18
The world’s future is currently being held accountable by the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG). This set of 17 goals represent the ideas comprised by the United Nations and serve
as a follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Adopted in 2015, the SDGs aim
for a universal plan of action that will be reevaluated in 2030. As an extension of the Millennium
Development Goals, the SDGs recognized the gaps present in the previous MDG framework.
Highlighted by the United Nations, the MDG goals “ignored the realities amongst and within
countries,” and did not consider the lack of data in many categories where improvement was
needed. As a result, the SDG’s main priority is to hold local, national, and international levels
accountable in order for a change to be achieved.
The SDG’s 17 main goals are noticeably broad, with the intention of serving as
overarching ideas which are divided into 169 targets. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), a priority
