Over the past week, the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), has come together to follow up with the results achieved and finding new ways to work towards the UN’s global targets that we know as the Sustainable Development Goals.

SDG #3 is being closely monitored during the current times and countries are struggling to keep their health care systems up and running as they should. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important it is for countries and nations to be united and work together.

SDG #1 - No Poverty is at the centre of the Sustainable Development Goals and currently projections are bleak for the impact of COVID-19 on global extreme poverty levels. In essence, to eradicate absolute poverty, and to do so sustainably, would demonstrate the successful achievement of all the SDGs.

The impacts of Covid-19 have disproportionally effected women, causing the gender pay gap to widen. Women’s earnings have dropped by an average of 13% during the pandemic, almost double the typical decrease in male earnings. The World Economic Forum predicts that following Covid-19, it will now take 257 years to achieve economic gender parity.