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Welcome to the Science Summit at UNGA76, a major contribution to advancing Science for the UN SDGs. Online from 14- September - 5 October 2021.
ISC will organise the second edition of the UNGA76 Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (SSUNGA76) in September 2021. The objective of the virtual meeting will be to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will demonstrate initiatives that provide models for global science mechanisms and activities in support of the SDGs, particularly in science infrastructure and capacity building. Science is and will enable sustainable economic, environmental, and societal development. Science is more than a funding prioritisation exercise: science is impacting all areas of policy-making and is playing a more critical role in how policy objectives are achieved and the consequent benefit to people everywhere, including responses to global challenges.
Engagement with policy leadership is more important than ever: UNGA76 is a unique forum for science to demonstrate how policy and political leadership can benefit from innovation. Central to this is the role of nonstate actors and the multilateral fora, which increasingly determine how priorities are set. Science needs to be part of this dialogue and inform outputs through thought leadership, evidence, insights, analysis, and innovation.

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Alberto Basset

LifeWatch ERIC
Interim Head
Dr. Alberto Basset is the interim Head of the LifeWatch-ERIC Service Centre. He is full professor of Ecology at the University of Salento, with main research interests in biodiversity organisation and ecosystem functioning with a particular focus on aquatic ecosystems. Since 2015, he is the pro tempore President of the European Ecological Federation and of the Euro-Mediterranean Federation of research networks on lagoon ecosystems and is in the board of editors of different international journals. At the national level, he is the Manager of the Joint Research Unit LifeWatch-ITA, which represents the Italian LifeWatch Support Committee. He has coordinated and participated in several EU projects.

My Speakers Sessions

Friday, October 1
 

1:00pm CEST

(REF LE01) Science and SDG 14 and SDG 15: Life Below Water and Life on Land. Convened by LifeWatch ERICDeclan Kirrane • Kurt Zatloukal • Ian Jones • Patrick Worms • Africa G. Zanella • Vladislav Popov • Stephen Peedell • Murray Hitzman • Juan Miguel González-Aranda • Karina Angelieva • Ciara Leonard • Alberto Basset • Erik Ruuth • Christos Arvanitidis • Shirishkumar Ravan • Milind Pimprikar • Akhilesh Gupta • Jyoti Mathur-Filipp • Peter Heffernan • Michel Massart • Antonio Micha • Stephanie Splett • Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo • Mike Elliot • Inmaculada Figueroa • Lino Barañao • Javier Castroviejo-Bolívar • José Manuel Ávila-Castuera • AERAP • iCRAG • Geoscience Council, South Africa • Ministry of Education and Science Bulgaria • IAU Office of Astronomy for Development • LifeWatch ERIC