{"id":235035,"date":"2026-04-12T06:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/space-18th-sdg-a-side-event-at-copuos-legal-subcommittee-16-april-2026"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:02:51","slug":"space-18th-sdg-a-side-event-at-copuos-legal-subcommittee-16-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/space-18th-sdg-a-side-event-at-copuos-legal-subcommittee-16-april-2026","title":{"rendered":"Space 18th SDG \u2014 A Side Event at COPUOS Legal SubCommittee \u2014 16 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LPQS-xRm5DA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Space has become critical infrastructure for climate monitoring, disaster risk reduction, connectivity, navigation, education, and long-term planetary resilience. Even more important, space is an open horizon for new industrial development and settlement, starting with Earth orbit, the geo-lunar system, and the near-Earth asteroids. The Space 18th SDG initiative proposes a non-regulatory, enabling framework that strengthens the existing 17 SDGs by recognizing outer space as both an enabler of sustainable development and an environment requiring stewardship.<br \/> THE PANEL:<br \/> Prof. Sergio Marchisio, Space Law Expert, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.<br \/> Ms. Fikiswa Majola, Deputy Director Space Systems, Department of Science and Technology (DST) South Africa.<br \/> Prof. Guoyu Wang \u2014 Space Law Center, China National Space Administration.<br \/> Dr. Claire Nelson, The Future Forum, Giamaica.<br \/> Adriano V. Autino, SRI CEO &amp; Founder.<br \/> Maria Antonietta Perino, Thales Alenia Space, Italy.<br \/> Stefano Antonetti, D-ORBIT SpA, Strategy Director, Italy.<br \/> Antonio Stark, iSpace, Japan.<br \/> MODERATES:<br \/> Dr. G\u00fclin Dede, SRI Director of Relations, Chair of the Space 18th SDG Coalition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space has become critical infrastructure for climate monitoring, disaster risk reduction, connectivity, navigation, education, and long-term planetary resilience. Even more important, space is an open horizon for new industrial development and settlement, starting with Earth orbit, the geo-lunar system, and the near-Earth asteroids. The Space 18th SDG initiative proposes a non-regulatory, enabling framework that strengthens [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,32,1496,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-education","category-law","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}