ESSC Chair, Dr. Athena Coustenis has been invited to give a talk at the United Nations High Level Forum which is taking place between 13-16 November in Bonn, Germany.

HLF 2018 aims to serve as a platform for providing updates and recommendations on the potential of space innovations to address new and emerging sustainable development challenges, building on the outcomes as highlighted in the Dubai Declaration of 2016, recommendations from the High Level Forum in November 2017 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the UNISPACE+50 in June 2018 in Vienna.

Dr. Coustenis’s presentation at HLF can be found here. Prof. Hermann Opgenoorth (Chair of ESSC Solar Sytem Exploration Panel) and Dr. Peter Preu (ESSC member, Life and Physical Sciences in Space Panel) are also attending the event.