Looking for a Saturday night film? Instead of Notting Hill try Nations United | Richard Curtis

In 2015, 193 countries agreed a blueprint for a better planet. 2020 was supposed to be a Super Year of progress - we can't let the pandemic knock us off course

I'm aware this is a strange article to be writing. As most people struggle with the day-to-day complexity of life under the pandemic, how we do find the headspace to think about something as global as the sustainable development goals? But I'm inspired by a recent article by the activist and author Arundhati Roy. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next," she wrote.

And for me, the roadmap on this journey comes from the global goals - the superdetailed blueprint, agreed by 193 countries in 2015, for transformation for people and planet by 2030.