Welcome to
B2B meetings at World Space Forum 2021
The WORLD SPACE FORUM brings together businesses, experts, and policymakers from regional, national, and local institutions, private organizations, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations. This composition enables a truly inclusive, diverse, and multilateral dialogue on the four pillars of space economy, space society, space accessibility, and space diplomacy. WKÖ AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA is organizing the international B2B matchmaking sessions as part of the World Space Forum 2021.
The event takes place within the framework of the internationalization offensive go-international, a joint initiative of the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Business Location and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
#WSF2021 | Background
Globally, 2020 was the second hottest year on record, adding another grim milestone to a rapidly warming planet. In Europe, according to data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2020 was the warmest year on the continent. Ocean acidification, desertification, collapsing biodiversity, disappearing habitats, intensifying storms, droughts and heatwaves - the changing climate is already manifesting its impacts.
As we strive to limit temperature growth to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, in 2016 & 2020, the global mean temperature was already 1.2°C higher than this baseline.
To tackle the climate crisis, we must re-think and restructure the global economy and society, harness all available assets and include science, technology and innovation in our decisions and policymaking.
In this regard, space technologies possess immense transformative power, offering a wide range of benefits for monitoring the Earth's climate and for setting climate actions.
#WSF2021 | Objectives
Space agencies around the world continue to achieve remarkable results in pursuit of the SDGs. UNOOSA, as the gateway to space within the United Nations, provides a unique platform for space actors to collectively discuss global activities aimed at maximising the impact of space assets. The World Space Forum 2021 aims to:
- Provide an outline of the challenges we are facing
- Raise awareness of space activities and space tools for achieving the global agendas
- Present new space technologies that enable progress and drive cooperation and partnership in space
- Exchange on the need to ensure the long-term sustainability of space activities
- Facilitate fundraising for #ClimateAction and #Space4SDGs
- Bring space actors together to exchange best practices and explore ways to jointly address challenges to humanity and sustainable development issues
- Launch a 'WORLD SPACE FORUM ACTION REPORT'
The World Space Forum Action Report shall cover the following aspects:
♦ Space solutions to secure broader inclusion of space solutions and generate more space resources for the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals ♦
♦ Global action for space safety and sustainability ♦
♦ Acting in partnership action to jointly develop solutions to bridge the growing "space divide" ♦
See more information here: https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en...
