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SUSTAINABILITY
THE GLOBAL UN VALUE
Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development
United Nations
The “Sustainable Development Goals” SDGs have been adopted by the
global community of States at the General Assembly of the United Na-
tions on 25-27 September 2015 in New York. The UN at the same time
celebrated its 70th anniversary. The core document with the 17 SDGs is
“Transforming the World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develop-
ment.”^184 Sustainable Development is the overall vision. The fact that
the world community—after a long and intense process of negotiations
of states with participation of all sectors of society such as non-
governmental, academic and religious organisations and the private
sector—agreed on these goals, shows that common goals and values
exist. What are these underlying global values promoted by the United
Nations? The following text is the Preamble and Introduction to the
2030 Agenda.^185 The values explicitly mentioned are highlighted for
this book in bold (selection by the editor). They include human dignity,
the “fair, just and inclusive society”, freedom, equality, empowerment,
peace/security, resilience, (common but differentiated) responsibility
184
United Nations, Transforming the World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, A/Res/70/1, New York 2015. http:// 185 sustainabledevelopment.un.org
Ibid, 3-12.