The conference is intended to help illustrate how sustainability science can help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The aims are to provide a platform to discuss the contribution of Sustainability Science and Research towards the implementation of the SDGs; to mobilize the relevant actors (i.e. government offices and authorities,  universities, enterprises, NGOs and grassroots organizations) working with sustainable development, to gather and deliberate how Sustainability Science and Research can help to achieve the SDGs; to offer an opportunity for those working with Sustainability Science and Research, and with its various ramifications, to meet their peers from across the world, and to display and present their works; and to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of projects, from successful initiatives and good practice.