The Human Development Report Office is hosting a New Alliance Talk at the 3rd Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) on 30 June 16.30 CET featuring global leaders such as Laura Chinchilla, former President of Costa Rica, Ruth Boumphrey, CEO of Lloyd Register Foundation, David Obura, Chair of IPBES, and Dirk Messner, President of the Federal Environment Agency, Germany.
This talk explores what the recent 2023 – 2026 the Human Development Report (HDR) Trilogy reveals about the changing nature of human development and what choices policymakers, businesses, and communities must make today to steer progress toward more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable futures. Across its three volumes, its emerging metrics framework, and the related partnerships, the trilogy maps the contours of a rapidly changing global landscape where political polarization, technological transformation driven by AI, and the destabilizing of our planetary systems intersect in complex and unpredictable ways.
Stay tuned! A key highlight for the session is an exclusive early preview of the forthcoming 2026 Human Development Report. The report introduces a new generation of human development metrics designed to better capture the realities and opportunities of progress in a rapidly changing world. As societies confront planetary pressures, technological transformation, and growing uncertainty, traditional measures of progress alone are no longer sufficient to guide decision-making. By offering new ways of understanding how global changes affect people’s wellbeing, safety and security, these metrics can help inform more forward-looking, targeted, and anticipatory policies, investments, and action where they are needed most to support both people and planet.