The High Level Political Forum remains an essential platform for assessing progress on the SDGs, to understand challenges in addressing specific Goals each year, but also to reinforce how the SDGs are interlinked and interdependent. Our SDG implementation plans need to take account of synergies and trade-offs across the 2030 Agenda. Also, the link between peace and progress on the SDGs has never been more apparent, given the terrible cost in lives and livelihoods as a result of conflict in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and elsewhere. We will fail to transform our world for the better if conflict and aggression continues to bring such suffering and hardship.