President Enrique Peña Nieto today led the installation of the National Council for the 2030 Agenda  for Sustainable Development, which will make it possible to define the route to incorporate different visions in favor of a common cause: “Laying the foundations for the future to which we aspire”.

“With the installation of this National Council, Mexico reaffirms its state commitment in this matter and also establishes a scheme of work that transcends government administrations. This is possible thanks to the active participation of the three orders of government, the legislative and judicial powers, private enterprise, academia and international agencies,” he explained.

The 2030 Agenda  establishes 17 Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO), which take up the experience acquired from 2000 to 2015 in the implementation of what was then the Millennium Agenda.

It incorporates an integral agenda with three axes: economic, social and environmental; and one that is universal, involving developing and developed countries, and cross-cutting, since all the objectives are interconnected with national policies”.

Goals to be achieved

  • No one will go hungry and no child under five will suffer from malnutrition.
  •  Extreme poverty will be eliminated.
  • Everyone will have equitable access to all levels of education and all forms of violence against girls and women will be eliminated.
  • Everyone will be able to have decent housing, as well as potable water services, clean energy and sustainable and quality infrastructure.
  • Everyone’s labor rights will be protected and the economic and social development of society as a whole will be promoted.
  • Our biodiversity  will be preserved and the capacity for response to climate change and natural disasters, known as resilience, will be increased.

“In the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, much still remains to be done, and yet we are not starting from scratch: the five axes of the National Development Plan, and the structural reforms we have achieved together put us on the right track to achieve the 2030 Agenda”: EPN

Mexico's Progress

  • In July 2016, Mexico was one of the first countries in the world to submit its Voluntary National  Review of the Sustainable Development Goals to the United Nations
  • The Senate has already set up a Working Group for the Legislative Follow-up of the Sustainable Development Objectives.
  • The National Governors’ Conference created the Commission for Compliance with the 2030 Agenda , and progress has already been made in State Commissions in certain states such as Chiapas, Colima and Nuevo León.
  • Since it is a state commitment, in the President’s Office, we have launched a Specialized Technical Committee for the Sustainable Development Objectives, with the support of INEGI and CONAPO”.

“Mexico has already taken concrete steps that will allow us to live up to the challenge”: EPN