From 19 to 21 February 2025, The Advancing Sustainable Development: Sustainability Science Summit 2025 took place in Berlin. The summit continued the series of summits organised by the German Committee Future Earth (DKN).
The Sustainability Science Summit 2025 provided a forum for national and international sustainability research, in particular for activities within the framework of Future Earth and the World Climate Research Programme WCRP.
Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge reflected on the new geopolitical security and risk landscape and what this means for sustainability science on a panel chaired by Prof. Bernd Siebenhühner, University of Oldenburg. She emphasised the challenges given that there is not one global science system but multiple, largely nationally funded and organised systems with great disparity in capacities. In particular, she expressed the need to overcome the discrepancy between those well-resourced science systems that systematically study global challenges and their impacts and the science systems of those countries often disproportionately affected by these challenges.
Dr Axel Berger moderated a panel on “Science-Policy-Interface: Challenges and Opportunities” which discussed ways to enhance inclusive and evidence-based knowledge-coproduction for sustainable development. Participants also expressed concern about threats to scientific freedoms by the rise of autocratic and right-wing forces across the globe.
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