Save the environment. Combat diseases. Help the mums. Reduce child mortality. Girl power. Everyone's right to education. Fight poverty and hunger. Mdgs_grades_6_to_8.pdf. Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? Jamie Drummond: Let's crowdsource the world's goals. TED: Ideas worth spreading. United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.
They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda. News on Millennium Development Goals Launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last September at the United Nations. George Carlin on The Environment (HQ)