The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals represent an ambitious program over the next 15 years to end global poverty, promote prosperity and people’s well-being, while also protecting the environment. The 17 proposed milestones (aka the SDGs) will be discussed by the UN’s 193 countries at the General Assembly meeting in New York between September 25-27, and if approved, will come into force January 2016.
The SDGs, which will replace the UN's Millennium Development Goals, cover 17 key areas of development, ranging from hunger and health to education and gender equality.
As part of The Huffington Post's commitment to solutions-oriented journalism, we have launched a What's Working blog series on the SDGs, in which we will focus on one goal every weekday in September. The world's foremost thought leaders in each of these areas will weigh in with solutions-oriented approaches to problems related to each goal.