World Sustainability Forum (WSF)

The World Sustainability Forum (WSF) is organized by MDPI and partially sponsored by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. From 2025 onwards, the WSF will be held annually. The 12th World Sustainability Forum (WSF-12) will take place in Hong Kong, China, in 2026, chaired by Prof. Vivien Lu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China). The forum will explore pressing themes including sustainable urban planning, the circular economy, renewable energy and grid modernization, climate adaptation, low-carbon mobility, and equitable green transitions.

The WSF local forums are locally held, physical one-day conferences organized by MDPI and the respective local partners, that are partially sponsored the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. Similar to the World Sustainability Forum, the local forums are dedicated to expanding knowledge of sustainability in all its facets and seek to contribute to policy-relevant, change-oriented, and transdisciplinary research and collaboration between science and technology, the life sciences, and the social sciences. Specifically, the SF local fora aim to provide researchers, stakeholders, as well as the general public with a local platform for exchange on a designated issue regarding sustainability.