… to make emerging knowledge from sustainability research available to the public so they (further) develop a sensitivity for social and ecological problems.

… to ensure that current and future generations can meet their needs without exceeding the ecological limits of the planet.

… we often face the problem that we are talking about challenges that lie on different scales of time and space. What we do today may have an impact on what happens in completely different places and in the future. In short, we are dealing with complex interactions that are not easy to communicate.

… dynamic, and so the consequences of our current actions can only be estimated with uncertainty.

… need to be communicated in an understandable way so that as many people as possible have the chance to understand them and to incorporate this knowledge into their decision-making processes.