The Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) strives to advance an aspirational vision of sustainability that ensures human and planetary wellbeing, firmly grounded in cooperation, multilateralism, and investment in global public goods. It has established itself as a platform for trusted dialogue, productive exchange, and the formation of alliances and initiatives contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Central to the HSC’s approach is demonstrating the private sector’s capacity to accelerate global transformation by scaling innovative solutions and mobilizing capital at speed and scale.

Building on this foundation, HSC 2026 will focus across all sessions on how international and cross-sector cooperation can be made more effective, particularly in times of disruption. As in its first two editions, the third conference will seek to forge new alliances, develop new forms of collaboration, and translate multilateral commitments into meaningful action—advancing declarations and coalitions and generating scalable initiatives designed to mobilize resources and deliver concrete solutions in support of the SDGs.