Content: Annual assembly focuses on global change

• Communicating risks: Statement of the Leopoldina and the French Académie des sciences
• The statement critical of bioenergy under discussion - A panel discussion giving voice to the different viewpoints that have arisen in response to the publication of Leopoldina´s recommendations was held in Berlin
• Active aging benefits society - German-Japanese Symposium on Positive Aging in Tokyo
• STS Forum in Kyoto – “Science and technology in society”
• Sustainable energy for Africa - Participation in the German-South African Year of Science: A workshop on “Technological innovations for a low carbon society“, held in Pretoria