Side Event

Fostering Sustainability Science Leadership: Synergies for Bridging Capacities Across Environmental and Developmental Policy Agendas

BELÉM, BRAZIL: This event at the COP30 GAUC Pavilion will highlight collaborative efforts to develop synergies across biodiversity, climate and the SDGs.

Time
- America/Belem
Address
GUAC Pavillion (PV-C98 Blue Zone), Parque da Cidade, Belém, Brazil

This side event at the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC) Pavilion of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP30) will highlight the collaborative efforts of UNU-IAS with other universities, NGOs, think tanks, private sectors and youth to develop synergies across biodiversity, climate and the SDGs. It will explore ways to maximize impacts by bridging the capacities across different sectors and generations.   

Solutions for sustainability in different contexts require capacities to comprehend intertwined social, economic and environmental issues. UNU-IAS has been fostering future leaders in sustainability science through education and training. By blending the expertise from its research and multi-stakeholder engagement initiatives, programmes drive synergies towards socio-ecological resilience through enhanced implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Global Biodiversity Framework and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

Participation

This event is open to attendees of COP30. 

Please note that participants in UNU events may appear in photography, screen captures, videos and/or audio. For further information please refer to Events.

Language

This event will be held in English.

Programme

Programme details will be added to this page as they become available.

Organizers

The session will be co-organized by UNU-IAS and Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC).

 

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