Without a radical transformation of our economic systems, we will not be able to honour the commitments and promise of the Sustainable Development Goals for a sustainable future that is equitable and leaves no one behind.

Building on previous discussions, which emphasized placing future generations at the heart of sustainable development and redesigning systems around values (including financial systems), the SDG Lab organized an open exchange on rethinking economic systems for long-term sustainable development.  

Hosted by the SDG Lab, this second So What’s Next explored how concepts such as going beyond GDP can refocus our economic systems to work for – rather than against – people and planet. The So What’s Next Series is a flagship initiative of the SDG Lab to surface new lenses to sustainable development, bringing marginal concepts to the centre of mainstream sustainability discourse and actions.