Faced with challenges of immense scale and complexity – growing inequality, impact of the COVID19 pandemic, conflict and displacement, catastrophic impacts of climate change, etc. – the international community rallies around a shared agenda of unprecedented ambition. The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reflect a systemic approach to advancing truly sustainable development – one that embodies economic, social, and environmental progress and leaves no one behind.The scope and foresight of the 2030 Agenda, together with the important commitments made in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, are far beyond what international organizations and aid flows can achieve by themselves. The SDGs have been formulated as a universal framework that demands collective effort and actions by governments, private sectori and civil society across all countries. Moreover, they require markets to be fundamentally reshaped in order to be more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable, while generating profits, innovation, and growth. The SDGs have emerged as lens for the private sector to view and assess socioeconomic realities – beyond traditional bottom lines.In that context, the SDGs act as a ‘risk map’ of the 21st century – one that reflects the 17 goals towards which public and private stakeholders must work together to reach. They offer a mechanism to think systemically about the best way to leverage any currency in order to address critical issues like electricity access or environmental degradation. The SDGs are based on the premise that ‘investments’ made in one Goal must be connected to others in order to generate multiple dividends.