Which of the following goals is not a Millennium Development goal?
2024
Which of the following goals is not a Millennium Development goal?
Answer: C. Climate Action — Concept. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the eight goals adopted under the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 and pursued over the…
- A.
Eradicate extreme Poverty and Hunger
- B.
Reduce child Mortality
- C.
Climate Action
- D.
Ensure Environment Sustainability
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Correct answer: C
Concept. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the eight goals adopted under the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 and pursued over the period 2000–2015. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are their successor framework, adopted in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda: seventeen goals that widened the agenda to themes the eight-goal MDG list never carried, climate among them. So a goal belongs to the MDG list only if it appears among those eight; a goal introduced by the 2015 framework does not.
Application. Place each offered goal in the framework it actually belongs to.
Goal as offered | Framework and goal number |
|---|---|
Eradicate extreme Poverty and Hunger | MDG 1 (2000–2015) |
Reduce child Mortality | MDG 4 (2000–2015) |
Ensure Environment Sustainability | MDG 7 (2000–2015) |
Climate Action | SDG 13 (2015–2030) |
Three of the four goals offered are drawn from the eight-goal MDG list, while Climate Action belongs to the seventeen-goal SDG list. Climate Action is therefore the goal that is not a Millennium Development Goal.
Cross-check. Reciting the eight Millennium Development Goals confirms that no entry named Climate Action appears among them:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development
The MDG framework did address the environment, but only through Goal 7, whose targets were reversing the loss of environmental resources, halving the share of people without safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and improving the lives of slum dwellers. Climate change had no dedicated goal of its own until the 2015 framework made it Sustainable Development Goal 13.
Result. Climate Action is not a Millennium Development Goal; it is Sustainable Development Goal 13.