The resulting 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was adopted by more than 150 states at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in 2015 in New York. As such, the SDGs provide an unprecedented opportunity for the mainstreaming and integration of sound chemicals and waste management into a broad and ambitious new sustainable development agenda of high political relevance and global commitment. This could involve facilitating the establishment of, or strengthening, existing national regulatory structures and other mechanisms, as well as enhancing information exchange for the implementation of the SDGs in the MEAs that deal with chemicals and waste.