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Germany’s dialogue between scientific advisory councils credited with boosting cross‑ministerial SDG input ahead of 2025 VNR
Summary
Representatives of SDSN Germany and the Science Platform Sustainability 2030 described a biannual dialogue that brought about joint reports from roughly 20 advisory councils and fed inputs into Germany’s 2025 Voluntary National Review, while noting limits from departmental decision rules and political cycles.
Marianne Beisheim and Anne‑Katrin Ellersieck described a German initiative that established a structured dialogue among roughly 20 scientific advisory councils to produce integrated scientific input for national sustainable development policy.
Marianne Beisheim, a participant in the dialogue, said the format grew after the 2015 SDGs and Germany’s early Voluntary National Review (VNR) work highlighted fragmented advisory structures across ministries. “The structure of science advice in Germany is rather fragmented and the risk was that advice would be generated in silos,”…
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