ABSTRACT
2030 Agenda provides an overarching framework to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Its vision of people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships, and its implementation proposals – including on follow-up and review, technology and partnerships – have provided the basis for action on the SDGs since 2015. It also identifies normative underpinnings for the SDGs, including ‘leaving no one behind’, universality and the need for policy and institutional ‘coherence’ to achieve the SDGs. Critics have called for improvements in measurement and review and stronger linkages to international agreements and law. They have also raised concerns about tensions and contradictions within and between goals that may limit their ability to address structural and institutional drivers of unsustainability, poverty or inequality.
