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Workshop Organising committee

Workshop Organising committee . photos: www.dawide.com. Future Earth research for global sustainability. WMO. Future Earth. The need(s) The partners The process The overall goal and key criteria The timeline The co-chairs perspective (video). Some of the challenges we face.

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Workshop Organising committee

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  1. Workshop Organising committee

  2. photos: www.dawide.com Future Earth research for global sustainability WMO

  3. Future Earth • The need(s) • The partners • The process • The overall goal and key criteria • The timeline • The co-chairs perspective (video)

  4. Some of the challenges we face • Feeding 9 billion people within sustainable planetary boundaries • Valuing and protecting nature’s services and biodiversity • Adapting to a warmer and more urban world • Transitioning to low carbon societies • Providing income and innovation opportunities through transformations to global sustainability • Aligning governance with stewardship

  5. A more coordinated and integrated approach • 1. GEC programmes/ESSP reviews (2006-2009): • Priority setting • Efficiency and effectiveness • Developing country agendas • Integrated research framework 2. 29th ICSU GA (2008): mandate for Visioning process 3. Recognised need to fully integrate natural and social sciences (ICSU and ISSC) 4. The funders (Belmont Forum) also initiated a strategic ‘rethinking’ process, with ICSU input

  6. 2009-2011: ICSU-ISSC Visioning Five Grand Challenges: a new way of doing research An overarching framework

  7. A global Alliance Future Earth: research for global sustainability WMO as observer Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability

  8. The Transition Team Disciplines, sectors, regions for a truly new co-design effort 17 individual capacity members, 11 ex-officio (ICSU, ISSC, Belmont Forum, UNESCO, UNU, UNEP) and Global Environmental Change ProgrammesDirectors 8

  9. Transition Team deliverables • An initial research framework • An institutional design • A strategy for outreach, education, stakeholder engagement • Strategy for strengthening regional involvement • A name for the initiative Initial design phase report: December 2012

  10. Future Earth: goal To provide the knowledge required for societies in the world to face risks posed by global environmental changeand to seize opportunities in a transition to global sustainability

  11. Criteria for Future Earth research • From fundamental to actionable Earth system research for global sustainability • Answers to complex questions that require international collaboration • Co-design and co-production of knowledge • Integration of natural, economic, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences • Regional to global linkages and scales

  12. Future Earth: a framework to unify existing bodies Global Environmental Change Programmes FUTURE EARTH 1991 2001 2013 1980 1986 1996 and their partnership all co-sponsored by ICSU

  13. Call for new projects Timeline towards implementation • Integration of existing projects 18-month initial design Transition Team Future Earth:10-year initiative Interim phase operational phase May 2014 Jun 2011 Dec 2012 Jan 2013 2022 Operational secretariat Governing Council Interim secretariat Interim governance Science Committee ESSP ends Transition management board

  14. A word from the Transition Team co-chair................

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