With the dissemination of the use of factories and open market principals in the 18th and 19th centuries, people and states started to reach products easily. Although this process eased life, it affected severely nature and human life. More than half-century international communities, like the United Nations (UN), tried to find solutions to tackle poverty, environmental problems, and scarcity of resources. In 1987 Brundtland Commission report explained the need for united development and environment which then called sustainable development. In the following years, with the increase of fears from the terroristic threats and environmental disasters, Millennium Development Goals (MDG) were published by the UN in 2000 along with 22 nongovernmental organizations with the aim of providing decent lives and protecting the environment. However, MDG was not successful in fulfilling its targets, so at the concluding of it, set of new goals called as Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were agreed to be implemented under 2030 Agenda with wider-pattern and human-centred approach. Despite SDGs broad approach to the subject, there are still incontrovertible lacks between targets and policies and therefore the main aim of this article is to analyze the short comparison between the MDGs and the SDGs effectiveness and explain why more concrete policies and decentralized mechanisms are needed to accomplish goals.
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