Walking into the session, a question buzzed in my head: can we 7B+ humans prove to ourselves that ‘sustainable development’ isn’t an oxymoron, in just 14 short years? Susan Myers—panel moderator, and Senior Vice President of the United Nations Foundation—echoed this urgency by kicking the session off with a reading of Sally Osberg’s call-to-action in the Forum program: “Now is a moment to renew our common cause, to forge bold partnerships, to bridge all that divides. Now is the moment we must reunite with those left behind or spurned. Now is the moment to embrace our common humanity.”...

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