The March and April Newsletter of the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future (featured below) contains much that will be of interest to PASCAL subscribers.

This includes information on a webinar on Goals and Targets in the context of the Open Working Group on SDGs to be held on 16 April.

Members are sought for the inaugural Engagement Committee of Future Earth, the global research platform providing the knowledge to accelerate our transformations to a sustainable world. Future Earth is a 10-year international research programme that will mobilise multi-disciplinary expertise, stakeholders and resources to ensure that scientific knowledge makes a larger contribution to societal debate and decision-making for sustainable development.

As part of the European Environment Agency’s major publication “Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation” (EEA, Copenhagen, 2013) Hartmut Grassl and Bert Metz wrote a chapter on “Climate change: science and the precautionary principle” that analyses the interplay between science and politics on climate change over the last 25 years.

There are 71 days to go until the RIO+20 conference in Brazil. This link provides details of a range of events within the conference including in food security and sustainable agriculture, sustainable cities and transition to a green economy, all of which may be of interest to PASCAL subscribers.