Global scientists have selected the top 10 scientific issues critical to human society development for 2022.
Global scientists have selected the top 10 scientific issues critical to human society development for 2022 on Tuesday.
Focusing on the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this year’s top 10 challenges mainly relate to climate, cities, and manufacturing.
The top scientific issues include coping with extreme weather and climate events, building a green and efficient recycling system of urban waste resources, and realizing a transition from resource-intensive, high-carbon to decentralized, low-carbon manufacturing industries.
These issues were proposed by chief editors, editorial board members, and strategic scientists of well-known sci-tech journals. Scientists from more than ten countries and regions, including China, the United States, and Britain, participated.
“Selecting and publishing the top 10 issues will help pool wisdom, build solution consensus, and deepen the openness, trust, and cooperation of the global sci-tech community,” said Luo Xian’gang, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Luo announced the list at the 4th World Science and Technology Development Forum in Chengdu, the capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
The 4th World Science and Technology Development Forum with the theme “Openness, Trust and Cooperation” kicked off in Chengdu on November 27, 2022, which was attended by more than 300 top experts and scholars, representatives of international organizations, and entrepreneurs, from more than 20 countries and regions, including 7 Nobel laureates and more than 60 academicians home and abroad.
Together, they discussed technological innovation and sustainable development in key fields such as basic science, climate change, digital economy, and green innovation, and proposed technological innovation solutions to address the challenges of today.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
Originally published at English News