ABSTRACT
For the first time since its first publication in 1990, the UNDP has integrated human and earth systems in its 2020 Human Development Report. This concluding chapter critically discusses the 2020 Report in the light of the arguments laid out in the previous chapters. It draws attention to some of its similarities with the perspective on international development articulated by the Catholic social tradition. It highlights some areas of mutual contribution such as a gender analysis and deeper social and political analysis of inequality, on the one hand, and the accompaniment of marginalized communities and a focus on the horizon of love, on the other. It argues that whatever their naming and differences of emphasis, whether human development or integral human development/integral ecology, both perspectives function as complementary analytical lenses and mobilizing frames for all actors at all levels of society embarking on the journey of transformation to bring all life systems, human and non-human, back into balance.
