The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Transformative Change through the Sustainable Development Goals?

The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for transition to sustainability. agenda acknowledges that different issues such poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, environmental degradation, among others, are intertwined can therefore only be addressed together. Implementing SDGs an ‘indivisible whole’ represents actual litmus test success Agenda. main challenge is accomplishing more integrated approach sustainable development encompasses new governance frameworks enabling managing systemic transformations. This thematic issue addresses question whether how set off processes societal transformation, cooperation between state non-state actors at all political levels (global, regional, national, sub-national), in spheres (politics, society, economy), across various sectors (energy, transportation, food, etc.) indispensable. In this editorial, we first introduce by providing overview architecture key challenges current implementation phase. second step, present eleven contributions make up clustering them around three themes: integration, challenges, implementation.