its ambitious crosscutting approach is fartherreaching than the millennium development goals mdgs adopted years ago which focused on increasing official development assistance and improving a series of social indicators its aim is to create peaceful bettergoverned and inclusive societies with no individuals or groups left behind pursued in combination with un agreements on financing for development and combating climate change the un global goals set the stage to integrate national regional and international efforts to promote sustainable development goal is to build resilient infrastructure promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation