In January 2022, Germany took over the Presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized states. The annual meeting of heads of state and government will take place from 26 to 28 June 2022 at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps.

Under the leadership of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the science academies of the G7 states, convening in the “Science7” (S7) format, will develop evidence-based statements related to topics on the summit agenda. Thematic priorities include the impact of climate change on polar regions and ocean, concrete measures for decarbonisation, the development of antiviral drugs for pandemic preparedness, and global health challenges posed by zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance.

At the S7 Dialogue Forum on 31 May 2022, the joint recommendations will be officially handed over to the German government by the presidents of the national academies of the G7 states and the conclusions will be discussed with national and international experts and the public at a science conference.

Program:

10:00 a.m., High Level Policy Session

• Prof. (ETHZ) Dr. Gerald Haug ML, President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Wolfgang Schmidt, Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks

10:45 a.m., Keynote Session

• Prof. Dr. Peter Piot ML, Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Stocker ML, Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern

13:15 p.m., Increasing Pandemic Preparedness and The Need for a One Health Approach

• Prof. Dr. Sandra Ciesek, Director of the Institute of Medical Virology, University Hospital Frankfurt and Professor of Medical Virology, Goethe University Frankfurt
• Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Mettenleiter ML, President of the Friedrich‐Loeffler‐Institute and Co‐Chair of the One Health High‐Level Expert Panel of the WHO, OIE, FAO and UNEP
• Prof. Dr. Jeremy McNeil, President of the Royal Society of Canada
• Prof. Dr. Félix Rey, Director of the Virology Department, Institute Pasteur, Paris

14:30 p.m., Climate Change: From Ocean and Cryosphere to Decarbonisation

• Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann, Professor of Climate System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer ML, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Prof. Dr. Marcia McNutt, President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Foreign Secretary, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome

16:15 p.m., Where do we go from here? Outlook on the Future of G7 and G20 Policy

• Prof. (ETHZ) Dr. Gerald Haug ML, President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Science7 Chair 2022)
• Prof. Dr. Takaaki Kajita, President of the Science Council of Japan and Nobel Laureate in Physics 2015 (Science7 Chair 2023)
• Prof. Dr. Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Indonesia (Science20 Chair2022)
• Prof. Dr. Anatoly Zagorodny, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine