The International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) is pleased to announce its 15^th annual conference. The 15^th annual conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society is hosted by the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The conference motto is “Taking up the Global Challenges: Analyzing the implementation of innovations and governance for sustainable development”. With this motto the organizers focus the conference on the scientific analysis of the key factors explaining successes (and failure) in the many practices of implementation of innovations and governance for sustainable development, both in the North and the South, and in the West and the East For more information visit http://globalchallenge2009.geo.uu.nl.

Following up on the success of the First DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference “Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being”, and in order to provide in-depth overviews of a broad range of topics in biodiversity research and initiate biodiversity research projects around the world, DIVERSITAS is pleased to announce its Second Open Science Conference. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 March 2009. For more information

visit http://www.diversitas-osc.org.