GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

According to current data, more than 200 million people worldwide are unemployed, especially young people. Work and economic growth play a key role in poverty reduction. Goal 8 includes sub-targets on economic growth, increasing productivity and creating decent jobs. Forced labour should be combated and modern slavery and human trafficking should be ended by 2030. Sustainable economic growth must not be achieved at the expense of the environment. Goal 8 therefore calls for the global improvement of resource efficiency in consumption and production and strives for the decoupling of economic growth and environmental degradation.