Future Prospects: Science for Sustainable Development

Future Prospects: Science for Sustainable Development

"Recalling that since the Rio+20 (June 2012), UNESCO Member States have been discussing how ‘sustainability science’ can be strengthened and mainstreamed into UNESCO’s work. More thought is needed, not only in a national context but also in the context of multilateral collaboration promoted by the UN, in order to provide concrete responses to global environmental and societal problems.

Science has contributed positively to problems such as climate change, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity loss, and social instability etc. Policy action, and the design and implementation of science-based programmes and activities still needed to be carried out. Creating knowledge and understanding through science helps towards finding solutions to today’s acute economic, social and environmental challenges and to achieving sustainable development and green societies.

Linking science to society, public understanding of science and the participation of citizens in science are essential to creating societies where people have the necessary knowledge to make responsible choices that will impact their lives, their environment and the world in which they live.

Indigenous knowledge systems, developed with long and close interaction with nature, complement knowledge systems based on modern science."

Key Themes: Sustainability Science - Future Prospects - Science for Sustainable Development

Date : 2014-Dec-09