OREANDA-NEWS. The government has set up the National Council for Sustainable Development by approved a decision to this end at a today’s cabinet meeting. At the same time, the cabinet also approved a regulation and the nominal composition of the Council. 

Thus, the new body will deal with the implementation of the commitments coming from the Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030, adopted at the Summit of the United Nations organization in New York on 25 September 2015, meant for all the countries of the world, in order to contribute to reducing poverty and carrying out the sustainable development till 2030.  

The Agenda includes a string of 17 sustainable development goals and aims at strengthening universal peace. The reduction of poverty and famine, ensuring the food security, improving the nourishment, modernizing the education, ensuring access of all persons to energy services, economic growth, upgrading the infrastructure, as well as developing the agriculture are just some of the objectives set in the Agenda. These goals will be pursued and enforced in Moldova as well, through the work of the National Council for Sustainable Development. 

The Council will include ministers, rectors, heads of agencies, representatives of the civil society, as well as of the United Nations Organisation’s team in Chisinau.

Moldova joined the 193 UN member states at the Sustainable Development Summit from September 2015, by passing the Agenda 2030 – a global universal action programme in the development sector, which promotes balance between the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. For the first time ever, the actions regard, to equal extent, the developed countries and the developing ones.