In September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, an action plan consisting of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These targets represent an expanded and updated version of a previous set of UN goals, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which ended in 2015. The crosscutting nature of the SDGs requires a strong degree of complementarity between the actions of states, civil society, international organizations and the private sector: small, medium and large enterprises have to work together with other actors to embrace the challenge of sustainability.
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