Agenda 2030

The UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted in 2015, it set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets for global progress on poverty, health, education, climate, and governance.

Global development framework: Agenda 2030's SDGs provided the successor to the Millennium Development Goals — a non-binding but broadly adopted framework that governments, NGOs, corporations, and international institutions use to align priorities. The 17 goals (from 'no poverty' to 'climate action' to 'partnerships for the goals') are broad enough to encompass almost any progressive policy priority, which makes them useful as alignment mechanisms and attractive targets for critics who see them as a vehicle for global governance overreach.