The 2030 Agenda sets out the Sustainable Development Goals that were agreed at the 70th sitting of the UN GeneralAssembly in New York on 25 September. These SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It was time to tackle theshortcomings in the MDGs. The world requires a new global partnership between developing, emerging and developed nations. The text analyses to which the foundations for such a cooperation have been laid during the negotiations on the SDGs and which precepts are likely to play a leading role in the future 2030 Agenda.