Inter-Generational Responsibility：π Community hosting 2023 Youth Climate Action Forum and 2023 Globa

As part of the 2023 World Young Scientist Summit (WYSS), the core events “2023 Climate Youth Action Forum” and “2023 Global Roundtable for Young Scientist Scholars” took place on 11-12 November 2023, in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, moderated by Global Young Academy (GYA) member Meng Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), who is also the WYSS Executive Secretary General.

The WYSS gathered more than 800 global experts, scholars, and young talents from the fields of green technology, low-carbon initiatives, climate change, and sustainable development gathered to explore new opportunities for collaborative efforts across regions, disciplines, and generations to actively address climate challenges and offer strategies for a green and sustainable future, especially there are only less than two weeks left to COP28, to show the clear perspective and position from all young scientists.

Global Warming Control Within 1.5°C – What Can the World Do?

“Many people are familiar with speed limit signs, but few know the meaning of 350PP, which refers to the safe level of carbon dioxide concentration per million. This concept was introduced a decade ago,” remarked Max Paoli, the Project Director of the World Academy of Sciences, during the event. During the COP21 conference in 2015, countries worldwide reached a unanimous commitment to make maximum efforts to limit global warming to within 1.5°C by 2050. The question “What can we do in the face of global climate change?” has become the “soul-searching question” for scientists from various countries present at the event.

With only 7 years left for SDGs2030 as the most significant global challenge this generation has ever faced, with the inter-generational and cross-geographical responsibility, GYA members strongly called for a return to the Sustainable Development Goals, the restoration of global trust and peace and the necessary science-driven actions.

To accelerate the UN SDGs 2030, WYSS will support a new initiative as the global innovation network named PI (π) Community to support innovation cooperation from regional to global.

In 2021, 50 young science and technology leaders from more than 40 countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Argentina, and Japan, gathered in the Global Roundtable of Young Science and Technology Leaders with scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to “cloud” to discuss the construction of a global youth science and technology innovation community. The WYSS π community was firstly proposed and officially launched and operated in 2022. PI implies “infinite possibility, infinite power, infinite hope” at the core of the spirit. The PI community cares about the earth, human beings, and our future. It pays close attention to the development of science and technology, life health, biosafety, climate change, clean energy, future technology, etc.

In the last two years, the PI community developed “friends” with higher institutes, international groups, financial institutions, governments, international organizations, etc., to build a global network with youth “wisdom” and “youth power.” The PI community integrates international science and technology international science and technology resources, academics, and other cooperation organization resources to carry out international exchange and youth innovation in science and technology cooperation.

In the future, we plan to set up 20 PI communities or hubs globally as the region’s innovation incubator and accelerator and connect as the youth innovation cooperation network from around the world to encourage innovation and accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.