The Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences held a symposium titled “Let’s Discuss and Think About the SDGs and Science!” in the Raiosha’s Symposium Space on November 15, 2025. Approximately 40 individuals attended.
By now, many individuals could have heard about the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. These are alleged to be achieved by 2030, however simply what sort of concrete motion is being taken to make that potential? To sort out this query, we invited 4 main figures in fields associated to the SDGs to attend the symposium. With the deadline solely 5 years away, we hoped to share the present standing of SDGs achievement, and additionally to supply members one other alternative to debate and take into consideration the improvement of the science and expertise wanted to help these efforts.
Professor Ayumi Onuma, of the Keio Faculty of Economics, gave the first lecture. It was titled “Using the Power of Economics to Support the Global Environment – The Two-Wheeled Engine of Economic Policy and Consumer Action.” Professor Onuma offered concrete examples to logically clarify how new applied sciences and merchandise turn out to be established in the market.
Next, the president of the J Leaf Corporation, Jun Uehara, offered the present and future prospects for plant manufacturing facility–primarily based lettuce manufacturing, and provided a roadmap for sustainable meals procurement in a lecture titled “SDGs: The Case of Plant Factories.”
The third lecturer was Kenichi Imagawa, of the Chiyoda Corporation’s Research and Development Center. He defined potential purposes for hydrogen, which has been slated as a next-generation vitality supply, and provided a forecast for its future improvement from the perspective of price, in a lecture titled “Applications for Hydrogen (Manufacturing, Transportation, Use) That Aid SDGs Achievement.”
In the remaining lecture, titled “Lunar Ring: Solar Power Generation on the Moon and Lunar Surface Construction Technology,” Naohiro Uyama, of the Shimizu Corporation’s Emerging Frontiers Division, launched an initiative that goals to generate solar energy on the moon’s floor, and spoke about future prospects for vitality provision.
These 4 lectures and the following normal query, reply, and dialogue session served as a possibility for the lecturers and members to collectively conceive a concrete imaginative and prescient of the SDGs, and science and expertise, for 2030 and past.
The Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences is planning a wide range of enjoyable occasions associated to the pure sciences, together with lectures, symposiums, and science cafes. We hope you’ll be part of us!