‘Science-policy Interface for Integrated Decision-making for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda and Beyond’
If you are attending the 2025 United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (the HLPF) next week, please join us for an in-person side event on Friday, 18 July 2025, 13:15 to 14:30, in Conference Room E, UN HQ, New York, New York.
Organized by the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations and Stakeholder Forum, and co-sponsored by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the International Science Council, the side event will be moderated by Louis Meuleman, the Chair of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future.
The session will look at ways to use the science-policy interface for effectively integrated decision-making at different stages of the policy-making process and to inform and engage different stakeholders from governments, intergovernmental organizations, and academia to civil society organizations in shaping effective evidence-based policies they can support to accelerate implementation of the SDGs in the five years until 2030. Science is forward-looking, exploring emerging issues and new solutions, and in this regard, the science-policy interface should be an important place for consideration of the way forward on a global sustainable development agenda and how it can be best used to inform thinking beyond 2030.
The Agenda
1:15 – Welcome by the Moderator, Louis Meuleman, Chair, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, including introductions to the keynote speaker and the panel.
1:20 to 1:40 – Opening remarks
- H.E. Luis Madera, Viceminister for Monitoring and Government Coordination of the Ministry of the Presidency of the Dominican Republic
- Juwang Zhu, Director, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, UN DESA
1:40 – Keynote Address, Marianne Beisheim, Senior Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs).
1:50 to 2:25 – Interactive panel with:
- Doreen L. Robinson, Deputy Director, Ecosystems Division, UNEP
- Morgan Seag, Senior Representative to the Multilateral System, International Science Council
- Ingeborg Niestroy, Principal, Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (Ps4sd) and Fellow at Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
- Kehkashan Basu, Founder-President of Green Hope Foundation and UN Human Rights Champion
- Divine Ntiokam, Founder and Executive Director, Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network Global
- Eeva Furman, Secretary General of the Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development
- Stefan Bauernfeind, Head of Division, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Ms. Magnolia Jerez, Chief of Planning and Development of the National Office of Statistics of the Dominican Republic
Lead discussant: David O’Connor, Fellow, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
2:25 to 2:30 – Closing from the Moderator
You’ll find short bios of our speakers and panelists here.
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