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These goals aim to address and find solutions to the most pressing global challenges by 2030, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. The SDGs build upon the success and lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were in place from 2000 to 2015. The goals cover a wide range of issues, such as eradicating poverty and hunger, promoting quality education and gender equality, ensuring access to clean water and sanitation, combating climate change, and fostering sustainable cities and communities. They are designed to be universally applicable to all countries, regardless of their level of development, and to be integrated and interconnected, recognizing that progress on one goal often influences progress on others. Each goal is accompanied by specific targets and indicators to measure progress, and countries are encouraged to develop their own national strategies and action plans to achieve these targets. The SDGs have gained widespread support from governments, civil society, businesses, and individuals, and have become a framework for global development efforts. Critics argue that the SDGs lack a clear implementation and accountability mechanism, and that the goals are too broad and ambitious to be achieved within the given timeframe. Additionally, some critics have raised concerns about the potential conflicts between different goals and the need for trade-offs. Nonetheless, the SDGs have played a significant role in shaping the global development agenda and fostering collaboration and partnerships at all levels, aiming to create a more sustainable and equitable world by 2030.