World Sustainability Forum

The World Sustainability Forum (WSF) is organized by MDPI and partially sponsored by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. It is hold every two years with the next edition taking place in 2025. WSF aims to be a platform for researchers to present and engage with research-relevant stakeholders on questions, issues and challenges regarding sustainability. It seeks to contribute to policy-relevant, change-oriented, and transdisciplinary research from, and collaboration with, science and technology, the life sciences, and the social sciences. Held for the first time in 2011, the forum covers research in a variety of fields that are closely related to sustainability and sustainable development, including:

• Environmental Sustainability
• Economic Sustainability
• Social Sustainability
• Renewable Energy Self-Sustainability
• Energy Return-on-Investment
• Governance and Sustainability
• Sustainability Assessment and Policies
• Remote Sensing for Sustainable Management of Land and Biodiversity

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.