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Sahyadri Textiles Ltd, an Indian company, plans to align its CSR projects on clean drinking water and sanitation in rural Maharashtra with the 2030 Agenda adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The CSR committee asks which framework it is mapping to. How many Sustainable Development Goals does this Agenda contain?
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015 contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They replaced the eight Millennium Development Goals and are supported by 169 targets, which companies can use to map their CSR projects.
- A8 goals
- B12 goals
- C17 goalsCorrect
- D20 goals
Explanation
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, contains 17 SDGs with 169 targets. The figure of 8 relates to the earlier Millennium Development Goals, which the SDGs succeeded.
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