BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS / Šturma, Mozetic (eds)

In this context, the world has specific challenges to achieve sustainable development to consolidate international business in the human rights structure, that is the importance of thinking in the whole, that the planet Earth and its ecosystems are our common home, and with global strategies the world can achieve the set goals. 25 The action for sustainability, then, imposed the need for measures. Of these, one of significant importance was the definition of Sustainable Development Objectives. This proposal was conceived as an agenda, in this case the UN 2030 agenda (Transforming Our World the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development), called Sustainable Development Objectives (SDGs). They are configured as a global agenda adopted during the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development in order to take action to eradicate poverty, food security, health, education, gender equality, among others. It was legitimized by the 193 UN member states and consists of a Declaration, establishing 17 Sustainable Development Objectives, which include 169 more specific goals, a section on means of implementation and a renewed global partnership, as well as a mechanism for evaluation and monitoring. 26 It is the result of the evolution of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), established by the UN in the 2000s. The convergence of MDGs with Sustainability was already pointed out by Ferrer 27 , including, as regards the difficulties of implementing the MDGs: Sustainability is more related to the Millennium Goals, which are the guide of action of humanity. The objective of the environmental is to ensure the conditions that make human life possible on the planet. On the other hand, the other two aspects of sustainability, the social aspects that have to do with inclusion, with avoiding marginality, with the incorporation of new governance models, etcetera, and the economic aspects, which have to do with growth and distribution of wealth. They have to do with dignifying life. Sustainability tells us that it is not enough to ensure subsistence, but that the human condition requires securing some decent conditions of life. The implementation of SDGs began on January 1, 2016 and constitutes a worldwide challenge, which seeks to follow the guidelines defined by the 17 objectives and their respective goals, whose main activity is poverty and protection of the planet, adopting to sustainable measures supported by the economic, social and environmental dimensions, aiming above all for the common good. It is a global commitment that includes not only the governments of the Member States, but requires a universal approach involving the participation of civil society, private initiative, academia in the most varied areas of 25 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM – UNDP (Brazil). United Nations – UN (Ed.). The Objectives of Sustainable Development . 2017. Available at: http://www.br.undp.org/content/brazil/en/ home/post-2015.html. 26 ONUBR. United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development. New sustainable development agenda: leaving no one behind . [S.l.], [S.d.] a. Available at: https://nacoesunidas.org/pos2015/ cupula/. 27 ONUBR. United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development. New sustainable development agenda: leaving no one behind . [S.l.], [S.d.] a. Available at: https://nacoesunidas.org/pos2015/cupula/.

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