The Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development is formed out of a partnership between the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in 2016; a strategic collaboration to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Built on the Millennium Development Goals set previously by the United Nations, the 17 goals encompass a sweeping agenda to free the human race from poverty, realize human rights and gender equality as well as to heal and secure our world. These goals were introduced at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015 to stimulate global action over the next 15 years.
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