Societies still follow unsustainable pathways despite concrete action already proposed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992. At this event, we will discuss the role of science 30 years after ‘Rio’ and specific challenges and opportunities for research at the University of Zurich based on research priorities suggested by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

This event is co-organised by University of Zurich, SCNAT, and SDSN Switzerland. Please register here (registration deadline extended).

Program:

17:30 Opening and Introduction

LORENZ HILTY, Sustainability Delegate at UZH

17:40 Priority themes for Swiss sustainability research: Development and criteria

PETER EDWARDS, President, Sustainability Research Initiative, SCNAT

18:15 30 years after ‘Rio’: Non-sustainable development and the role of sustainability research

MARK HALLE, Principal, NatureFinance, former member of SDSN Switzerland's Leadership Council

19:00 Panel discussion: Ideas and requirements for sustainability research at the University of Zurich

OLIVER STRIJBIS, Dept. of Political Science, UZH

MARTINA EBERLE, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern

INA SCHELLING, Student, Sustainability Committee, UZH

CORNELIA KRUG, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, UZH

20:00 End of discussion, followed by an apéro

21:00 End of event

Moderation: JEANNETTE BEHRINGER, Sustainable Development in Research and Teaching, University of Zurich, and GABRIELA WÜLSER, Head of Sustainability Research Initiative, Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)