On February 28, 2025, Lidia Brito, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, wrote to Prof. Guo Huadong, CBAS Director-General——“I am pleased to inform you of the endorsement of your initiative entitled “Digital Sustainable Development Goals Programme” as a Programme of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD).”

From January 26 to 30, 2025, the Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue and the 3rd International Science Council (ISC) General Assembly were held in Muscat, Oman.

At the World Science Forum 2024 (WSF 2024) held in Budapest, Hungaryt, over 1200 leading experts and researchers gathered for this four-day event.

On October 16, 2024, Professor Guo Huadong, Director General of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development (CBAS), held a virtual meeting with Amandeep Gill, Under-Secretary-General and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology.

The 2024 Big Earth Data report, released at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), sets a new standard for using advanced technologies in promoting sustainable development and offers key resource for the global community, said the project's leader.

Researchers from the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed the first-ever 10-meter resolution maps of harvested winter wheat areas across China’s top-producing regions from 2018 to 2022.