India Inc first to formally adopt UN's Sustainable Development Goals

March 15, 2016

India Inc. became first in the world to formally adopt the United Nations’ (UN) agenda for the world’s sustainable development and 17 goals identified for its implementation.
It was formally adopted by the India Inc. at the 11th National Convention on Sustainable Development Goal (NCSDG) organized by the Global Compact Network in Mumbai.
Key facts

The convention was inaugurated by Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar.
It was for the first time UN is involving private and public sector corporates across the globe to drive its development agenda.
With this India Inc. became the first in the world to adopt the SDGs and implement them at their companies.
Top 50 domestic corporate leaders from India such as the Tata Group, Aditya Birla Group, Reliance, Vedanta, Adani Group and public sector Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and several MNCs had officially adopted the SDGs.

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG aims at broadening the horizon for growth and transformation under the theme of people, planet and prosperity. These goals succeeded 8 MDGs which were adopted in 2000 for fifteen years till 2015.
It has 17 non-binding goals with 169 specific targets that comprise different socio-economic issues to be implemented from 2015 to 2030. These goals are