Special session
The 3rd Special Session on Digital Sciences for Sustainable Development
(Holiday Inn Chengdu Qinhuang, 11st June 2025)
Introduction:
The year 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in areas such as climate actions, clean energy transition, and ecosystem conservation. However, persistent challenges such as data gaps, model uncertainties, and fragmented governance continue to hinder the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With only five years remaining until 2030, humanity faces an urgent need to accelerate the transition from incremental progress to systemic transformation.
Digital Sciences, an interdisciplinary paradigm integrating Earth system science, digital technologies, and socio-economic sciences, is reshaping the way we understand and implement sustainable development. From integrated Big Earth Data to AI-driven decision support, and from digital twin simulations to global collaborative governance, Digital Sciences offers innovative solutions to critical bottlenecks in the "data-knowledge-action" chain.
Following the inaugural session (September 2024, Beijing), which introduced the theoretical framework of Digital Sciences, and the second session (October 2024, Suzhou), which responded to the objectives of the Global Digital Compact, the 3rd Special Session will focus on the theme "Digital Sciences Empowering the Decade of SDGs Action: From Cognitive Innovation to Accelerated Transformation".
The session will address three pressing issues: (1) decade review and gap analysis, (2) transition science and acceleration pathways, (3) global collaborative governance innovation for sustainable development. The special session includes invited talks and open discussion, to elucidate the digital sciences towards the sustainable development.
The outcomes of this special session include understanding of the fundamental and forward-looking science challenges of sustainable development, and recommendations of digital technologies underpinning sustainable development and the SDGs.
Session Time:
Morning, 11st June, 2025 (Wednesday)
Session Venue:
Holiday Inn Chengdu Qinhuang, Room: TBD
Session agenda (draft):
| Activities |
| Opening Remarks |
| Invited talks |
| Group photo and coffee break |
| Open discussion |
| Conclusion |
Call for Participation:
We warmly invite researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to submit abstracts and join us at this pivotal event. For submission guidelines and more details, please visit our Call for Abstracts page here.
Contact:
QIU Yubao (qiuyb@aircas.ac.cn)
LI Xiaoting (xlnirvan@cbas.ac.cn)
Special Session on Digital Sciences for Sustainable Development
1st Special Session on Digital Sciences for Sustainable Development held in Beijing