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The South-North Commission on Development was formally launched on June 30, 2026, at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference.
Aim -To rewrite the rules of global engagement by moving past traditional, outdated donor-recipient models.
Co-Chairs -The independent global commission is co-chaired by Olaf Scholz (former German Chancellor) and Laura Chinchilla (former President of Costa Rica).
Composition -It will bring together up to 20 commissioners drawn from politics, business, labor, academia, international organisations, and civil society, with a majority represented by the Global South.
Legacy Model -The initiative is explicitly modelled after the historic 1977 Brandt Commission, reviving its spirit to address systemic global inequalities in an increasingly multipolar world.
Timeline-The commission is expected to present an interim report in 2027 and a final report by the end of 2028.
