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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2015)—eight international development goals for the year 2015, which were established after the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit (UN, 2000).

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    Although often used interchangeably, ESD and EfS are ideologically different, see Sterling (2001) for a full discussion.

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