The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, comprises how many goals and how many targets respectively?

• A 8 goals and 21 targets
• B 17 goals and 169 targets ✓
• C 17 goals and 230 targets
• D 20 goals and 169 targets

Explanation

Agenda 2030 contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals broken down into 169 targets, monitored through a larger set of global indicators. The MDGs had only 8 goals and 21 targets, making option A the classic confusion between the two frameworks. Option C confuses targets with the roughly 230-plus indicators used to track progress. Goals are effective from January 2016 and apply universally to all countries, unlike the MDGs which focused on developing nations.

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