Joe Biden, Michelle Obama and Jim Yong Kim join Beyonce and stars on stage at huge Global Citizen concert to fight world poverty {VIDEO}

At its General Assembly summit in New York this week, the UN set out a list of 17 sustainable goals that it hopes to achieve by 2030 which replaces the Millennium goals which were drawn up in 2000 and expired this year.

They are designed to cover almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and to improve it for all the world's citizens - though critics have denounced the list as overly ambitious and, in places, too vague.

The Global Citizen Festival, held tonight in Central Park, was designed to raise awareness of that list, and during the concert more than 1billion people messaged about the targets via social media. 

The concept was that, in order for leaders to be held accountable to the goals, people must first be aware of them and what they are. Here is the list in full: 

1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Including a target of having no one living in extreme poverty - defined as less than $1.25 a day - anywhere in the world by the year 2030.

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Part of this goal calls for the doubling of agricultural production by small-scale farmers.

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

For example, leaders have set out to reduce maternal mortality (the number of women who die each year during childbirth) from the current rate of 200 per 100,000 live births to 70.

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Including that students everywhere should have free access to education through high school.

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

This goal aims to end discrimination and violence toward women and girls. It also calls for the elimination of child marriage and female genital mutilation.

6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

This goal calls for universal access to toilets and clean drinking water, as well as protecting and restoring natural water resources over five years.

7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

This goal calls for universal access to electricity and more renewable energy.

8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

This item sets an ambitious annual economic growth target of 7 percent per year for the poorest nations.

9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

This goal calls for increased technological assistance from developed countries to poorer nations to modernize roads, dams, electrical grids and other infrastructure.

10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

This target tries to address the growing gap that's emerged globally between the "haves" and the "have-nots."

11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Say goodbye to slums. This goal envisions sustainable, livable urban centers with universal access to green spaces.

12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

This section sets bold targets for cutting in half food waste by the year 2030 and over the next five years overhauling industrial waste streams.

13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

This goal acknowledges climate change and then notes that the real work on this issue will come at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change later this year in Paris.

14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

This goal calls for sustainable management of marine fisheries by 2020 and elimination of marine pollution by 2025.

15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

This goal calls for the same protection of land that No. 14 demands for the sea.

16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

In other words: We should all live in harmony. The goal also calls for an end to violence and corruption.

17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

This final goal calls for rich nations to give more assistance to poorer countries and to help less developed nations progress.