The Human Development Report Office will host a New Alliance Talk at the 3rd Hamburg Sustainability Conference on 30 June at 16:30 CET. The session will bring together global leaders including Laura Chinchilla, former President of Costa Rica; Ruth Boumphrey, CEO of Lloyd’s Register Foundation; David Obura, Chair of IPBES; Dirk Messner, President of the Federal Environment Agency, Germany; and Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Nigeria.
The discussion will explore what the 2023–2026 Human Development Report Trilogy reveals about the changing nature of human development — and the choices policymakers, businesses, and communities face in steering progress toward more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable futures.
Across its three volumes, the trilogy examines a rapidly changing global landscape in which political polarization, technological transformation driven by artificial intelligence, and growing pressure on planetary systems are intersecting in complex and often unpredictable ways. The session will consider how human development thinking can help countries navigate these shifts and identify practical pathways for action.
A key feature of the session will be an early preview of the forthcoming 2026 Human Development Report. The preview will introduce emerging approaches to human development measurement that aim to better capture the realities, risks, and opportunities shaping people’s lives in a changing world. As societies confront planetary pressures, technological disruption, and growing uncertainty, traditional measures of progress are no longer sufficient on their own. New metrics can help inform more forward-looking, targeted, and anticipatory policies, investments, and action in support of both people and planet.