Explanation
- A
1 only
Statement 1 says the Sustainable Development Goals were first proposed in 1972 by the Club of Rome. The Club of Rome’s 1972 Limits to Growth was a resource-and-growth study, not the SDG agenda. SDGs were born from the Rio+20 / UN process and adopted in 2015. 1 only is wrong.
- B
2 only
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved by 2030 (the 2030 Agenda). Statement 2 is correct and statement 1 is not, so 2 only is the official key.
- C
Both 1 and 2
Both would require the Club of Rome origin. That origin is false, so both is not the key.
- D
Neither 1 nor 2
Neither would deny the 2030 deadline, which is correct. This option is wrong.
Summary. Official key is (b) 2 only. Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted at the UN summit in September 2015, with 17 goals and 169 targets for 2030. The Club of Rome (1968) and Limits to Growth (1972) are earlier environment-development literature, not the SDG text. MDGs (2000–2015) were the immediate predecessor. Statement 1 is a date-and-author trap.
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