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PROGRAMME 2024

SDG Conference in Bergen 2024

Welcome to the digital SDG Conference in Bergen 2024! The theme this year is 'The role of universities in transformative change'.

Panel discussion SDG Conference Bergen 2023
Panel discussion SDG Conference Bergen 2023: Sarah Cornell (Stockholm University), Edgar Hertwich (NTNU), Erik Gomez-Baggetun (NMBU) and conference moderator Sofie Høgestøl.
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Silje Katrine Robinson / UiB

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Unless we act now, the 2030 Agenda will become an epitaph for a world that might have been.
  • António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations 


THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE
Most of the Sustainable Development Goals from Agenda 2023 will not be implemented globally. The climate and nature crises indicate a code red for humanity. Wars and rising geopolitical tension create new setbacks. There is a huge gap between needed action and the current mobilisation of political leadership, knowledge, resources and technology. How can universities and the academic profession engage in new and more radical ways?

THE PROGRAMME 
See the programme below.