The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) begins Monday in Davos. This year’s theme is Cooperation in a Fragmented World, which captures the crucial point that collaborative solutions are needed if we are to mitigate the critical global risks we are currently facing.

The 15th conference of the parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity concludes in Montreal today. The conference serves as a biennial convening of global governments to set 10-year goals on conservation and sustainable resource use and to carve a path to mitigate biodiversity loss.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015, launched the well-known Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs were designed as imperatives to be achieved through partnership with the understanding that strategic and collective action was necessary for progress. The United Nations General Assembly meeting this year marked the midpoint in the SDG timeline and with it came the warning that we are not on track to meet the goals.