Creating Space for Dialogue

Strengthening international dialogue on sustainability issues is a key focus of the Science Platform Sustainability 2030.

Strengthening exchange for sustainability

The Science Platform Sustainability 2030 creates spaces for dialogue between representatives from science, politics, business, and civil society – and contributes its findings to science and sustainability policymaking processes across a broad range of initiatives and networks. The platform’s findings are disseminated through the Steering Committee and the sponsoring research networks SDSN Germany and DKN Future Earth together with the IASS.

The Science Platform contributes to policymaking in a critical yet constructive role by highlighting actionable policy options, conflicts, and troubling path dependencies. It also fosters scientific debate on sustainability and policymaking for sustainable development and highlights urgent research deficits, with a particular focus on implementation challenges.

In order to fulfil its mission, Science Platform Sustainability 2030 was established as an independent organisation and is integrated within the official steering, dialogue, and implementation processes for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as the implementation and ongoing development of the German Strategy for Sustainable Development.

Exchange between science and politics

Strengthening exchange between science and politics

Science Platform Sustainability 2030 supports policymaking for sustainable development in, by and through Germany and fosters scientific debate on sustainability challenges. The Science Platform engages with relevant policymaking and implementation processes that promise to deliver significant transformation gains and where scientific expertise will contribute to a more sustainable outcome.

As part of its mission to support the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the German Strategy for Sustainable Development, the Science Platform identifies relevant research deficits and works to strengthen dialogue between policymakers and scientists.

The implementation of the German Strategy for Sustainable Development is one of the central political processes to which the Science Platform Sustainability 2030 contributes. In 2019, the Science Platform will organise the scientific consultation on the German Strategy for Sustainable Development and its implementation ahead of the strategy’s latest update in 2020.

In order to strengthen and expand the scientific basis of the strategy’s implementation, the Science Platform, together with SDSN Germany, has initiated a dialogue on sustainability issues between the scientific advisory committees of the German Government.

In addition to these activities at country level, the Science Platform is also active in the international arena, where it contributes to the High-Level Political Forum of the United Nations (HLPF).

Strengthening exchange within science

The Science Platform Sustainability 2030 also fosters debate within the science system around the implementation of the German Strategy for Sustainable Development and encourages researchers from all disciplines to engage with sustainability issues and policymaking for sustainable development.

The Science Platform engages with the scientific community through high-level transdisciplinary dialogues and by highlighting urgent research deficits. To support this work, the Science Platform is firmly integrated into the political steering, dialogue and implementation processes of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Close ties also exist to relevant research processes, as demonstrated by the platform’s launch at the 13th Forum for Sustainability (FONA) hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in 2017.

In addition to this, the Science Platform contributes to a number of science initiatives, including “Sustainability in Science” (SISI), hosted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), as well as the Hoch-N-Netzwerk for the promotion of sustainable development at higher education institutes.

The working groups convened by the Science Platform are open to interested researchers from all disciplines.

Further information about the work of the Science Platform

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