INDIA ACTS TO 'SUSTAIN' LANDSCAPES & LIVES

As a nation with the world's largest population, India is seen as a critical player in realising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for reversing the depletion and damage done to the earth impacting human lives, flora and fauna. The thrust to achieve the SDG targets are multi-pronged backed by innovative policies and will of the government for a world where peace and prosperity reign.

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CAUSES LEADING TO SDG 2030

The world continues to reel under frequent and recurring natural disasters like typhoons, earthquakes, floods, drought, volcanic eruptions, forest fires and more. The consequences of such disasters have led to marked climate change, which is not only altering coastlines, changing global landscapes, destroying biodiversity, taking millions of lives, both human and animal, but is also causing mass migration, loss of livelihood leading to depravity, famine, health crisis, political instability besides economic burden, imbalance and destruction. With the very existence of planet earth under threat largely because of human avarice and reckless plunder of natural resources tipping it to the edge, world leaders were compelled to come together to curb the mounting crisis, which was snowballing into massive proportions staring menacingly at the dooms day of human race. In 2015, 193 Member States of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development comprising of 17 SDGs and 169 targets. The Agenda 2030 is guided by the principle of universality, inclusivity and sustainability, a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for ensuring unbiased development for all communities, everywhere, especially the most vulnerable. The SDGs objectives were aimed at addressing challenges like hunger, poverty, inequality, environmental degradation etc., for building equal societies and a prosperous planet now and into the future with the pledge - 'Leave No One Behind'. SDG 2030 calls for urgent action by all countries in forging a global partnership that work in tandem with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth while simultaneously tackling climate change by working concertedly to preserve the vast oceans and green cover-forests.