ACADEMIA Letters Global crises, SMEs, and entrepreneurship: the need for a new agenda for the future Kalani Kiriveldeniya H.S.R. Rosairo The Covid-19 global pandemic situation put the global economy in a crisis while many of the nations were sufering from unfavourable events such as extreme weather, climate change, unstable economics, political instability, and even terrorism. The situation caused loss of millions of human lives and disrupted livelihoods. Prolonged locked-down situations due to Covid-19 recently put everyone in predicament of fulflling their basic needs and wants. Continuous lockdowns worsened the situation which severely afected both the physical and mental wellbeing of the people and even deprived them of their basic human rights. These continuous past and present threats on human wellbeing which afected at national, regional, and even at global levels, have opened up a common platform for the world leaders of the United Nations (UN) to take action at every and possible level to become resilient and adaptive towards such situations. The UN has addressed these global threats through their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will be the watershed blueprint of peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and in the future. The 2030 agenda on global challenge for government transparency and SDGs included a total of seventeen goals of which No Poverty, Zero Hunger and Climate Action are considered in this article as especially important for the developing countries as these are prominent issues to be addressed by the developing world. The SMEs have been defned by Bayraktar and Algan (2019) as frms with 200 or less employees. Their contribution and the importance to the world economies have been well researched. They are important for developing and developed economies alike. The World bank (WB) (2021) confrmed that the SMEs represent around 90 per cent of businesses and over 50 per cent of the employment worldwide. The WB estimates that the formal SMEs contribute to around 40 per cent of national income (in GDP terms) in emerging economies. Academia Letters, February 2022 Corresponding Author: Kalani Kiriveldeniya, kalani.kiriveldeniya@agri.sab.ac.lk Citation: Kiriveldeniya, K., Rosairo, H. (2022). Global crises, SMEs, and entrepreneurship: the need for a new agenda for the future. Academia Letters, Article 4854. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4854. 1 ©2022 by the authors — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0