Science Magazine outlines the big scientific issues at Rio+20

Science “Science for Sustainable Development”

The distinction between “Sustainable Development Goals” and the “Millenium Development Goals” is interesting: adding sustainability and thus environmental concerns to these goals necessitates more direct action on the part of developed nations.

I am also intrigued by the idea that in order to truly make a go at technologically averting our environmental destruction we must assure that strong opportunities for education in science are available to everyone in the global population: this is the only way to achieve maximum innovation.

China leads: as goes China in the realm of sustainable development, so goes much of the rest of the developing world. It is fascinating to see where China goes!

The call for “Systems Science” and cross-disciplinary work is essential.