Adopted by all of the United Nations member states in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals are a shared blueprint for ending poverty and tackling climate change by 2030 while working to preserve the earth’s natural resources. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve by stimulating action over the next fifteen years in these 17 areas of critical importance. The goals include ending poverty and hunger, achieving gender equality, and ensuring the availability of quality education, clean water and sanitation for all.