Happy new year fellow steemians, i will be writing  on a topic series of *sustainable development*. 
As we all know the population of the world is on a rise thereby increasing the pressure on resources available to us, we start by defining **Sustainable Development**.
**What is sustainable development**? we can define sustainable development as the means whereby the current generation satisfy their *needs* and improve their quality of life why putting into the consideration and safeguarding the ability of the our descendants to also meet their own *needs*.
What are the needs?
>Base on UNESCO's Report "every generation should need water, air and soil resources as pure and unpolluted as when it came to earth, each generation should leave undiminished all the species of animals and plants it found existing on earth"
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>The General Assembly, meeting at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit held 25-27 September 2015, adopted resolution 70/1, "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development".
>The Sustainable Development Goals, as listed in the resolution, aim to "stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet": 
    Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
    Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
    Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
    Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
    Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
    Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
    Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
    Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
    Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
    Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
    Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
    Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
    Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
    Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
    Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
    Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
    Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. 

In the next part of this series i will be writing  on the major spheres of sustainable development.

**SOURCES**
[1](http://ask.un.org/faq/97134)
[2](https://en.unesco.org/)
[3](https://twitter.com/UNLibrary/status/685141430008975360/photo/1)
[4]
(http://unfoundationblog.org/common-questions-on-the-global-goals)