--- title: "UN Sustainable Development Goals" description: "Explore 186 UN Sustainable Development Goal categories and example usages on climate finance, clean-energy implementation and European gas-demand reduction." url: "https://nosible.com/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals" --- [Home](https://nosible.com/) [Ontologies](https://nosible.com/ontologies) UN SDGs Ontology field guide By NOSIBLE Research Updated 2026-07-18 # UN Sustainable Development Goals The UN Sustainable Development Goals separate climate reporting into policy, energy, infrastructure, cities and finance cohorts. Climate policy does not affect one market. It changes power systems, transport, buildings, industry, public finance and development funding. A single climate label collapses those channels. The Sustainable Development Goals preserve them through 17 goals and 169 targets, allowing researchers to separate broad policy attention from the specific implementation mechanism under discussion across markets. [[ 1 ]](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3923923?ln=en) [[ 2 ]](https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13) World assigns one goal and one target to each classified event. Goal-level data support cross-sector attention measures. Targets isolate investable mechanisms such as renewable energy, resilient infrastructure, urban planning, climate policy and international finance. The labels organise reporting. They do not measure policy delivery, capital committed, emissions avoided or subsequent market repricing. [[ 7 ]](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/chapter/chapter-15/) Categories 186 categories Structure 2 levels World events labelled 28.1% Stable codes Since v2 Release data CC0 On this page [01 Foundations](https://nosible.com/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals#foundations) [02 Categories](https://nosible.com/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals#vocabulary) [03 Example usages](https://nosible.com/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals#trends) [04 Downloads and references](https://nosible.com/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals#downloads) Foundations ## The goals connect social and environmental outcomes to measurable implementation mechanisms The 2030 Agenda defines 17 integrated goals. Each goal contains outcome targets and explicit means-of-implementation targets. The distinction matters. Climate Action can describe resilience or policy integration, while target 13.a isolates international climate-finance commitments. Affordable and Clean Energy separates access, renewables, efficiency, cooperation and infrastructure across different investment channels. [[ 1 ]](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3923923?ln=en) [[ 2 ]](https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13) The goals are policy categories, not mutually exclusive economic sectors. World stores the dominant goal and target for each event. Secondary themes are not retained in this field. Researchers should therefore inspect neighbouring goals and target-level assignments before interpreting a change as a shift in the real economy. [[ 7 ]](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/chapter/chapter-15/) Categories ## Seventeen goals and 169 targets separate policy outcomes from investment mechanisms Seventeen roots define the goals. Their 169 children define outcomes and implementation mechanisms. Letter-suffixed targets identify means of implementation; numeric targets identify outcomes. The explorer exposes every definition, code, path and World V1.2 count without creating a separate page for each target. [[ 1 ]](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3923923?ln=en) Search code, label, definition or path 17 shown · 186 total Labelled events **4,301,492** World coverage **28.1%** All World events **15,311,040** 4,301,492 of 15,311,040 World events carry labels from UN Sustainable Development Goals. Select a category to see its count and both relevant shares. Hierarchy goal / target + No Poverty Poverty reduction and social protection · 7 children + Zero Hunger · 8 children + Good Health and Well-Being · 13 children + Quality Education · 10 children + Gender Equality · 9 children + Clean Water and Sanitation · 8 children + Affordable and Clean Energy Energy access, renewables, efficiency and clean-energy infrastructure · 5 children + Decent Work and Economic Growth · 12 children + Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure Resilient infrastructure, industrial transition and technology · 8 children + Reduced Inequalities · 10 children + Sustainable Cities and Communities Buildings, transport, urban resilience and disaster exposure · 10 children + Responsible Consumption and Production · 11 children + Climate Action Physical resilience, climate policy, capability and finance · 5 children + Life Below Water · 10 children + Life on Land · 12 children + Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions · 12 children + Partnerships for the Goals Finance, debt, technology transfer, trade and institutional cooperation · 19 children No Poverty ### No Poverty Copy link #### Definition Reporting on poverty reduction, social protection and resilience. Potential research use Poverty reduction and social protection Code No Poverty Events with label 34,955 Share of labelled 0.8% Share of World 0.2% **Events with label** is the selected count. **Label share** divides it by 4,301,492 assigned events; **World share** divides it by all 15,311,040 events. #### Representative World V1.2 events One strong classified example per available year, with up to ten years shown. 10 examples 1. 2015-10-12Angus Deaton Wins 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics on PovertyCoverage 337 2. 2016-10-03World Bank warns inequality threatens global extreme poverty reduction effortsCoverage 14 3. 2017-10-23Brazil Poverty Rises as Social Program Coverage DropsCoverage 17 4. 2019-03-26Rahul Gandhi Promises Surgical Strike on Poverty via Income GuaranteeCoverage 101 5. 2020-11-26Global Poverty Reduction Innovation Seminar Held in Beijing Amid PandemicCoverage 14 6. 2021-02-08CBO: $15 Minimum Wage Cuts Poverty But Kills 1.4 Million JobsCoverage 551 7. 2022-02-22US Fails to Renew Child Tax Credit Despite Poverty Reduction SuccessCoverage 254 8. 2024-09-26Argentina Poverty Spikes to 53% Under Milei's Austerity Shock TherapyCoverage 145 9. 2025-11-01Kerala Becomes First Indian State To Eradicate Extreme PovertyCoverage 296 10. 2026-04-14UNDP Warns West Asia Conflict Risks Pushing 2.5 Million Indians Into PovertyCoverage 457 Browse categories to compare definitions, World V1.2 statistics and representative classified events. Example usage 1 of 3 ### Example Usage: Finance-target share doubles after COP29 as reporting shifts toward funding mechanisms and implementation The comparison isolates finance targets inside broad COP29 reporting rather than preselecting finance language. Their share rises from 21.0% during the summit to 40.7% over the following 28 days, a 19.7-point increase. The shift shows that post-summit attention moves toward funding mechanisms even as overall conference coverage decays. [[ 3 ]](https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-glasgow-climate-pact-key-outcomes-from-cop26) [[ 4 ]](https://unfccc.int/news/cop27-reaches-breakthrough-agreement-on-new-loss-and-damage-fund-for-vulnerable-countries) [[ 5 ]](https://unfccc.int/cop28/5-key-takeaways) Earlier summits show a median post-event decline of 8.1 points, making COP29 directionally different. The measure combines climate-finance target 13.a and development-finance targets 17.1–17.5. It tracks reporting composition, not funded commitments, disbursements, emissions outcomes, policy effectiveness or any verified post-summit market repricing across exposed assets during the following month for investors. [[ 6 ]](https://unfccc.int/news/cop29-un-climate-conference-agrees-to-triple-finance-to-developing-countries-protecting-lives-and) [[ 7 ]](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/chapter/chapter-15/) COP29 summit **21.0%** 28 days after **40.7%** Composition change **+19.7pp** Prior median **-8.1pp** **COP29 reverses the prior-summit median decline** after share minus summit share Positive change Negative change Faded bars · fewer than 30 events The cohort requires an explicit COP or United Nations climate-conference reference. Each summit uses official dates plus 28 days before and after. Finance targets combine climate-finance target 13.a with development-finance targets 17.1-17.5. COP29 is compared with earlier summits, not treated as a general COP effect. The measure tracks reporting, not committed capital, disbursed finance, emissions reductions or investment returns. Example usage 2 of 3 ### Example Usage: US climate policy shifts from broad ambition toward clean-energy implementation across federal reporting The Inflation Reduction Act changes the goal composition of United States climate-policy reporting after enactment on 16 August 2022. Affordable and Clean Energy rises from 21.9% to 43.3% of assigned events, while Climate Action falls from 50.0% to 30.0%. Reporting moves from broad climate ambition toward energy implementation channels. [[ 8 ]](https://www.energy.gov/edf/inflation-reduction-act-2022) The distinction matters for capital-market research because the goals imply different exposure maps. Climate Action captures broad policy and resilience. Affordable and Clean Energy points toward power generation, efficiency and infrastructure. SDG classifications let researchers separate policy announcement from investable implementation without assuming that classified attention equals delivered spending, capacity or emissions reduction. [[ 1 ]](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3923923?ln=en) Affordable and Clean Energy +21.4pp Climate Action -20.0pp US climate policy shifts from broad ambition toward clean-energy implementation across federal reporting Before enactment After enactment 21.9% 43.3% **Affordable and Clean Energy** 50.0% 30.0% **Climate Action** The fixed English cohort names the Inflation Reduction Act with climate, energy or emissions language around 16 August 2022. Within-phase percentages describe assigned Sustainable Development Goal composition during the matched policy window. Example usage 3 of 3 ### Example Usage: Europe's gas crisis shifts from energy supply toward winter demand reduction Europe's gas crisis sharply increases normalized Sustainable Development Goal coverage after Russia invades Ukraine. Weekly assigned attention peaks at 1,589 events per million, more than four times the prewar median. The pooled rate rises from 335 before the war to 644 through winter, showing persistent development and investment concern. [[ 9 ]](https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2022/executive-summary) The implementation channel changes through winter. Affordable and Clean Energy falls from 68.5% before the war to 54.0%, while Responsible Consumption and Production rises from 6.5% to 18.8%. The categories reveal a shift from securing supply toward conservation, efficiency and demand reduction that a single energy keyword cannot separate. [[ 10 ]](https://www.iea.org/commentaries/europes-energy-crisis-what-factors-drove-the-record-fall-in-natural-gas-demand-in-2022) Normalized coverage +309.2 per million Affordable and Clean Energy -14.5pp Responsible Consumption +12.3pp Eight-week pooled share of SDG-assigned gas-crisis events · % Responsible Consumption Affordable and Clean Energy The fixed English cohort covers European gas-supply and natural-gas reporting from September 2021 through March 2023. Each line pools goal counts across the current and prior seven weeks, then divides by all SDG-assigned cohort events in that window. Phase summaries compare the prewar period with the following winter demand-reduction phase across the same European cohort through winter 2023. Data and sources ## Download UN SDGs and References ### Downloads Download categories and counts as CSV, or the complete machine-readable release as JSON. [**CSV** Definitions and counts Download ↓](https://nosible.com/data/world-v1.2/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals/v2/nodes.csv) [**JSON** Full machine-readable release Download ↓](https://nosible.com/data/world-v1.2/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals/v2/statistics.json) Release details and citation files [Manifest](https://nosible.com/data/world-v1.2/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals/v2/manifest.json) [Release README](https://nosible.com/data/world-v1.2/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals/v2/README.md) [CC0 license and scope](https://nosible.com/data/world-v1.2/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals/v2/LICENSE.md) [Citation file](https://nosible.com/data/world-v1.2/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals/v2/CITATION.cff) [Changelog](https://nosible.com/data/world-v1.2/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals/v2/CHANGELOG.md) Need the complete World event schema? [Open the World data dictionary.](https://nosible.com/data-dictionaries#world) ### References 1. [ 1 ][United Nations General Assembly. (2015). Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A/RES/70/1.](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3923923?ln=en) 2. [ 2 ][United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.](https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13) 3. [ 3 ][United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Glasgow Climate Pact: key outcomes from COP26.](https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-glasgow-climate-pact-key-outcomes-from-cop26) 4. [ 4 ][United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. (2022). COP27 reaches breakthrough agreement on a loss and damage fund.](https://unfccc.int/news/cop27-reaches-breakthrough-agreement-on-new-loss-and-damage-fund-for-vulnerable-countries) 5. [ 5 ][United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. COP28: what was achieved and what happens next?](https://unfccc.int/cop28/5-key-takeaways) 6. [ 6 ][United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. (2024). COP29 agrees a new collective quantified goal on climate finance.](https://unfccc.int/news/cop29-un-climate-conference-agrees-to-triple-finance-to-developing-countries-protecting-lives-and) 7. [ 7 ][Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2022). Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, Chapter 15: Investment and finance.](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/chapter/chapter-15/) 8. [ 8 ][U.S. Department of Energy. Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.](https://www.energy.gov/edf/inflation-reduction-act-2022) 9. [ 9 ][International Energy Agency. (2022). World Energy Outlook 2022: executive summary.](https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2022/executive-summary) 10. [ 10 ][International Energy Agency. (2023). Europe's energy crisis: factors behind the record fall in natural gas demand in 2022.](https://www.iea.org/commentaries/europes-energy-crisis-what-factors-drove-the-record-fall-in-natural-gas-demand-in-2022) Continue exploring ## Complementary ontologies [43 categories EM-DAT Disaster Classification Connect development targets to the physical disaster categories shaping climate adaptation and finance. Explore ontology →](https://nosible.com/ontologies/em-dat) [300 categories ICD-11 Chapters and Blocks Link health-related development targets to clinically defined event cohorts and changing disease attention. Explore ontology →](https://nosible.com/ontologies/icd-11) > Explore 186 UN Sustainable Development Goal categories and example usages on climate finance, clean-energy implementation and European gas-demand reduction. **URL:** https://nosible.com/ontologies/sustainable-development-goals