Mar 10 2025 to Mar 10 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The UN Sustainable Development Goals frame until 2030 globally consented objectives to ensure the balance between socio-economic interests and ecological requirements. Already now, we know that many of the goals will not be realized since some of them are contradictory to others and since efforts to realize them fail due to non-knowledge-based policies and geopolitical conflicts. There is no way back to national or regional perspectives on the future, as these will also increasingly depend on global cooperation and consensus-building. Consequently, since only five years are left to define the new UN goals, an in-depth discourse on these future goals should start right now.

This public lecture intends to synthesize experiences from implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals using some case studies in the Global South, and to think of potential new goals and their implementation – as well as to think of what could be improved to enhance the uptake of scientific results in policy processes, to enhance science-policy-interactions.

This session is part of the Let’s Talk Climate Change Talk series.

Speakers

Christine Fürst
Forest Scientist & Professor, Sustainable Landscape Development, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst is a forest scientist, and obtained her Ph.D. from Technische Universität Dresden, with a habilitation at the University of Bonn. She is a full professor for Sustainable Landscape Development at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Christine specializes in social–ecological systems research. She funded the European Land-Use Institute and established the European Nodal Office of the Global Land Programme. She has been a lead author on IPBES regional assessments, president of the International Association of Landscape Ecology, and in the development team of the Future Earth Food–Energy–Water Nexus Knowledge Action Network. Her main research interests currently lie in integrative landscape modeling and impact assessment by means of a system of systems and in participatory decision processes in urban and regional spatial planning. Her regional research focus lies in West Africa, Latin America and South Asia.

Harini Nagendra
Director, Research Centre & School of Climate Change & Sustainability, Azim Premji University
Harini Nagendra is Director of Research Centre, and Director, School of Climate Change and Sustainability, at Azim Premji University. Her work focuses on urban ecology, forest conservation and climate change amongst other themes. She is a well-known public speaker and writer on issues of urban sustainability in India Her books include Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future; Cities and Canopies: Trees of Indian Cities; So Many Leaves, and Shades of Blue: Connecting the Drops in India’s Cities. She also writes the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series, a set of historical mysteries set in 1920s Bangalore.