New York City is breathtaking and embodies the progress, the possibilities of our time. But there, at the headquarters of the United Nations, the challenges we face as a global community also become clear, as if under a magnifying glass: While on one street billion-dollar banks are crowded together, a few blocks away poverty is sky-scraping. We see this huge gap between rich and poor in many places around the world. In the Global South, thousands of children die every day as a result of hunger and malnutrition. Entire countries are threatened with drowning in debt – while billionaires make new record profits and the machinery of consumption keeps turning in the Global North. The goal of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to change this, towards greater justice.