They make up a global agenda – adopted during the United Nations Summit on Sustainable development in September 2015, consisting of 17 objectives and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030 – in which global actions are planned in four main dimensions:

1- Social: related to human needs, health, education, improving quality of life and justice.

2- Environmental: deals with the preservation and conservation of the environment, with actions ranging from reversing deforestation, protecting forests and biodiversity, combating desertification, sustainable use of oceans and marine resources to adopting effective measures against climate change.

3- Economic: addresses the use and depletion of natural resources, waste production, energy consumption, among others.

4- Institutional: concerns the capabilities to put the SDGs into practice.