The SDGs, known as the Global Goals, build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015.
The MDGs, adopted in 2000, was aimed at issues that included slashing poverty, hunger, disease, gender inequality, and access to water and sanitation.
The new Global Goals go much further than the MDGs, addressing the root causes of poverty and the universal need for development that works for all people.