The 2030 Agenda is fast approaching its terminal date, and we are facing a stark reality: the majority of its targets remain unmet. This impending deadline raises a critical question that the Agenda itself does not answer: what exactly should be carried forward? In my latest pre-print research paper, currently available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN - Elsevier), we set out to answer this. How We Assessed the Data We wanted to look beyond basic progress repo