Report identifies emerging trends in development and smart ideas for tackling longer-term global challenges. 

• Spotlight 2024 focusses on intergenerational equity (fairness between generations) and discusses three key areas. 

Key areas under Report

• Hope for an equitable future
  • Rights of nature are starting to be acknowledged in constitutions (Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia), laws and even corporate boards. 
  • There is growing recognition of need for alternatives to current economic models, from circular or regenerative economies, to new or post-capitalism. 
    • Concept of nature as an asset class is growing. 
  • Young people are expressing themselves, laying the foundation for a creative democracy through digital networks, use of AI etc. 
• Hope for responsible technological progress
  • AI has the potential to narrow development gaps in agriculture, healthcare, pollution control, education, and even augment democracy.
    • Open Source AI movement has potential to democratize access to AI.  
  • Multilateral cooperation in space, with sufficient regard to ethics, could improve lives on Earth.
    • Satellites could connect the 2.5 billion people still offline. 
• Hope for resilient and connected communities
  • Challenges to communities include persistent trauma of conflict and disaster, digital disinformation and loneliness left by Covid-19. 
  • Communities and start-ups are investing in social and intergenerational connections.