The SDGs include things like gender equality, quality education, good health and well-being and climate action.
Many of the 17 UN goals are things that the city is already targeting under the Peduto Administration’s One P-G-H Plan.
Peduto is working to establishment a network of partners that will help measure the city's progress against the SDGS.
The Mayor has aligned the SDGs with local investment areas of the ONEPGH Investment Prospectus, a collection of over 40 projects funded and implemented with the objective of improving livability for all residents by 2030.
Mayor Bill Peduto said that adopting the UN goals helps bring in the private sector.
“Although nations can ratify treaties, the implementation gets done on the local level,” Peduto said at a news conference on Friday, “and it doesn’t get done by government alone.”
These improvements do come with a cost.
“It comes out to around 4 billion dollars worth of investment that we need to do in these next 12 years,” Peduto said.
That funding will come from government, hospitals, universities and donations.
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