This is the document everything on this site measures against. In 2015 all 193 member states adopted the 2030 Agenda, setting 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets with a 2030 deadline. It is the reference text: when a report says a goal is on or off track, it is tracking against the targets set here.
What it commits to
The Agenda is universal, applying to every country rather than only to developing ones, and it is built around a pledge that “no one will be left behind” and to reach the furthest behind first. It spans the social, economic and environmental dimensions of development in a single framework, from poverty, hunger, health and education to energy, industry, cities, climate and the means of implementation. The goals are integrated by design: progress on one is meant to reinforce the others, which is why the annual reviews keep returning to interlinkages.
Why it matters here
The Agenda did more than set goals; it established the machinery for counting them. The global indicator framework it created is the backbone of the annual SDG Report and of the country reviews at the High-Level Political Forum, the body the Agenda designates to follow up on progress. With fewer than five years to the deadline and roughly a third of targets on track, the 2026 stocktake is a measure of how far the promise made here still has to travel.
Read it
- Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the full resolution (A/RES/70/1).
- The SDG Report 2026, the current progress assessment against it.