Can we turn the greatest reversal of human development into a historic leap forward? This is no time to get ‘back to normal’. ‘Normal’ was a world steeped in inequality and climate crisis. It is time to move beyond recovery—a sustainable, inclusive and resilient future.

The COVID-19 pandemic has condensed the experience of a slow, cumulative 80-year climate crisis into an 18-month health emergency, revealing the full extent of human vulnerability on a global scale. Just like the climate change, no-one is truly protected from the spread of this virus. The pandemic has the potential to shift incentives to act in ways that were not on the policy, legal and regulatory table before – to lift the financial, institutional and political constraints that had kept the Sustainable Development Goals off-track prior to the pandemic.

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