This symposium will focus on opportunities and challenges related to including inputs from scientists in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and fostering interaction between policy processes and science. This event will focus on: assessing the ongoing processes on the SDGs and the post-2015 development agenda; the role of scientists in shaping the SDGs at the global, national, and local levels to help integrate sustainability concerns into actions; and engagement between local and international science communities with policymakers, civil society and citizens to help craft the post-2015 development agenda and implementation sustainable policies. Csaba Kőrösi, Permanent Representative of Hungary and Co-Chair of the Open Working Group on the SDGs, and Mark Stafford Smith, Chair of the Future Earth Science Committee and Science Director of the Climate Adaptation Flagship at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, will give keynote speeches. The symposium is being organized by the UN University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), together with the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the POST2015 Project.  

date: 15 November 2014  
  14:00-17:00  
venue: Roppongi Academy Hills, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 49F, 6-10-1 Roppongi  
location: Tokyo, Japan  
contact: Makiko Arima  
phone: +81-3-5467-1212  
e-mail: arima@unu.edu  
www: http://ias.unu.edu/en/events/upcoming/science-and-the-sustainable-development-goals.html