Science and policy in times of multicrisis and dissent

This conference is dedicated to the complex relationships between science, policy and private interests in this age of global multicrisis.

What are the roles of scientific evidence and advice and of corporate and non-commercial societal interests in political decision-making? In what ways do unaccountable political-economic actors, interests and assumptions shape political and scientific assumptions about what is possible and what is needed? Under what conditions can existing public problem-definitions, as well as just decisions on them, be made scientifically and democratically legitimate? How should scientific advisors and policy-makers respond to scientific disagreements? And what can responsible scientists do when governments adopt measures intended to shut down or at least control scientific dissent, when it challenges dominant official narratives?