Pardee Center invited to join the UN’s Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership

The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has been invited by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs to be a founding member of the ‘Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership’ (SDKP).

The SDKP is a United Nations Public-Private partnership, with the UN Division of Sustainable Development as its secretariat, which brings together some of the leading organizations and individuals working on sustainable development for the partnership’s stated mission: “To organize the knowledge on sustainable development in order to make it more useful for practitioners and policy makers.”

The goal of the partnership is to bring together individuals, institutions, and networks engaged in the production and dissemination of knowledge on sustainable development, including research institutions, universities, expert networks, governmental institutions, civil society organizations, private research entities, and individual researchers working on sustainable development.

The SDKP was established in May 2009 at the meeting of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD) after the Conclave of Though Leaders on Sustainable Development, in which the Pardee Center also participated. The SDKP currently has six working groups: Communications and coherence, Publications, Sustainable Development Assessment, Annual Sustainable Development Conference, Capacity Building and Partnership Development.