The Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption 2019
There is growing alarm and political tensions surrounding the ecological and social challenges reflected in the Paris Climate Agreement, IPCC report, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a clear need to scale the translation of ‘know-how’ and solutions in order to transform systems of production and consumption towards sustainability.
Given this context, the fourth international conference of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption (GRF) took stock of sustainable production and consumption (SPAC) research, including cutting edge insights, and accelerated the engagement of researchers with knowledge users in business, policy and practice. The Hong Kong 2019 conference was hosted by HKUST on 26-29 June 2019 and built on many GRF regional meetings and the three previous international GRF conferences in Rio de Janeiro (2012), Shanghai (2014), and Brighton (2017).
The conference was organized to identify insights and linkages across the SPAC research themes and actively bridge research with policy and practice. The scope covered local and global issues and interconnections across scales, connecting regions, networks of practitioners and researchers.
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About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
