In a Guest Article at IISD.org on 6 August, CoR-EU Members Louis Meuleman and Ingeborg Niestroy argued for broadening the science-policy debate on sustainable development by including society as the third dimension. Not a new insight but it’s still not happening!
The 2025 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development rightly focused on improving scientific evidence and science-policy relations for more effective and coherent implementation of the whole 2030 Agenda. However, the traditional science-policy concept excludes societal stakeholders, and hence misses out on non-scientific knowledge and innovative solutions as well as on identifying societal questions. A side event at the 2025 HLPF hosted by Stakeholder Forum (SF), including SF’s new Chair Louis Meuleman and SF Fellow Ingeborg Niestroy – both also members of the Club of Rome EU-Chapter, identified problems and solutions and called for tri-polar peer learning among science, policy, and society. 2025. https://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/science-policy-and-society-a-trinity-that-can-accelerate-the-2030-agenda/
