Phil Gona has been invited to participate in the Interdisciplinary German - South African Symposium on: “Socio-ecological novelty - frontiers in sustainability research” from 18-20 March 2013, in Berlin, Germany. The symposium is organized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academy of Science of South Africa, the Junge Akademie, the South African Young Academy of Sciences and the Global Young Academy (GYA). Phil is Fellow and executive committee member of the GYA”.