Contemporary international society is a highly complex and dynamic environment in which actors face different impacts of globalization and also several challenges to promote development in the UN 2030 Agenda framework. Moreover, international actors, both public and private, are playing their roles in tandem in intense network-based flows and glocal connections. Development is a core issue in contemporary governance debate, because societies all over the world are sharing similar concerns and facing the same biggest challenges, like global warming, extreme poverty, and indecent work, among others, that are spread both in developed and underdeveloped countries. In summary, relations in globalized society reframe governance in the development process. They allow new local actors to emerge in tandem with global actors, what puts forward new perspectives on how contemporary challenges can be faced everywhere by everyone so “no one is to be left behind.” The study seeks to show that this multidimensional globalization impacts the limits and possibilities of pluridimensional development in the UN 2030 Agenda framework, both at the global and local levels. In this regard, it emphasizes how the instruments of globalization, particularly the networks, are appropriated in a counter-hegemonic manner by social movements which, though operating locally, are aligned with globally shared ideals of socio-environmental and economic justice, thereby contributing to a redefinition of the concept and practices of the dominant development paradigm. The methodological procedures adopted in this research concern the deductive method, and it has a qualitative purpose. A bibliographical survey technique was used after first establishing the theoretical frameworks.