General Article Sustainable Development Goals: How is the UK performing?

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In 2015 the UK Government committed to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals aim to improve peace, prosperity, access to healthcare and education and tackle climate change worldwide.

The SDGs, also known as the ‘Global Goals’, replaced the 2001 Millennium Development Goals, which only covered developing countries. The new goals apply to advanced economies like the UK.

Each country signed up to a deadline of 2030 to achieve the SDGs and has to report on how they ...

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