A team of global health experts explore the connection between empathy, action, and human flourishing, and how it may help make the SDGs attainable. The UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development centers around 17 SDGs, set up in 2015 to address global issues including poverty, hunger, clean water, education, and gender equality. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic hindered progress toward achieving these goals by 2030. However, leading global health experts make a case that compassion could reinvigorate and accelerate the quest, and lead to human flourishing. "I believe that compassion is the instrument that allows human flourishing," says Liz Grant, Director of the Global Health Academy, and Co-director of the Global Compassion Initiative both at the University of Edinburgh. David Addiss is Global Health Ethics Officer and Director at The Task Force for Global Health, and founding director of The Task Force’s Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics. He sees the SDGs and compassion as intertwined. "I see the sustainable development goals as an expression of compassion and an attempt to deliver compassion in very tangible forms to alleviate specific forms of human suffering," he says.