D espite brilliant innovations designed to tackle global challenges, the world is not keeping pace with meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Only 35% of SDG targets are on a track or show moderate progress, while 18% have regressed. This is the paradox of our time: we have the tools to solve our greatest challenges, yet we are failing to scale them.

This failure means millions of preventable deaths, trillions in lost economic opportunity and a catastrophic widening of global inequality – with 23 million people plunged into extreme poverty since 2019. Groundbreaking solutions are starved by fragmented funding and a global development architecture built for cautious progress.

Aid volumes hit a record $223.7 billion in 2023, yet total development grants fell the

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