Simply put, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an agenda for change. As many commentators have highlighted, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a significant departure from the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); this is a much more transformative agenda, first and foremost because it’s universal but also because it is rights-based and tackles the root causes of inequalities and discrimination; brings together climate change and development in the same framework; and, importantly, focuses on ‘leaving no one behind’ and eliminating extreme poverty. What’s more, where the MDGs were vertical and siloed, the SDGs are more inter-linked and horizontal and require much more integrated approaches.