SDGs and beyond

Join us for the final event in our global partnership with the UK at Expo 2025. With the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals fast approaching, the UK has made ambitious, mission-driven commitments to integrate climate change measures into national policies and planning and to accelerate a just transition to a net-zero, nature-positive future. Linking speakers in the historic Great Room of the RSA in London and in the UK Pavilion at Expo 2025, this event will feature leading public thinkers, policy influencers and innovators who are driving breakthrough progress on climate action. From pioneering clean energy technologies to powerful, community-driven movements for regeneration and resilience, discover the ideas and solutions that are seeding a flourishing future for people, places, and the planet we all share. Speakers: Prof Masako Konishi , Showa Women’s University, director at WWF Japan, former news presenter and weather forecaster (Osaka) Derek Walker , Future Generations Commissioner for Wales (Osaka) Mete Coban MBE , Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy (London) Rachael Orr, CEO, Climate Outreach (London) Chairs: Ben Sheppard , Co-founder and Chair, Design for Good (London) Carolyn Davidson , Commissioner General for the UK at Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai (Osaka) RSA and UK at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai A bold new events partnership celebrating the UK as a place to come to study, visit and invest, and as a country of innovation and creativity where the world can come to build the future. With the deadline to the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals just five years away, the RSA and UK at Expo 2025 partnership will tackle global issues from inequality to climate change, exploring the progress that has been made and the work still to be done to secure health and wellbeing, peace, justice, and prosperity for communities worldwide. Donate to the RSA: Become an RSA Events sponsor: Follow RSA on Instagram: Like RSA on Facebook: Listen to RSA Events podcasts: Join our Fellowship:

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