The document summarizes the Global Sustainable Development Report 2023, which will be presented at the UN General Assembly SDG Summit in September 2023. It discusses progress made on the SDGs halfway to the 2030 deadline, the importance of an integrated approach and avoiding trade-offs. It emphasizes the central role of science in achieving the SDGs through open access to research and an increased science-policy-society interface. The report calls for global action to set priorities to guide national SDG efforts, identify synergies and bottlenecks, and accelerate interventions to achieve multiple goals.