Future Earth workshop – Kuala Lumpur

1. Future Earth workshop – Kuala Lumpur Breakout session 1: Developing a regional vision for Future Earth Key messages

2. What is your vision for global change and sustainability research for the region and how do you see Future Earth contributing to it? • Water • Deltas • Rapid social change • Capacity building and science careers • Fostering shared visions with governments • Creating learning communities • Blue carbon • Human-ecological • Research excellence • Diversity • Adaptation • Resilience • Restoration • Coastal zones, vulnerability • Politics of development • What is sustainability, how do we know? • Flexibility to allow evolving goals and approaches

3. Mangroves and peat lands preserved Healthy coastal zones, rehabilitated, replenished Risks reduced, to disaster and insecurity Environmentally engineered ecosystem services Health, energy security, mobility addressed Sustainability understood and programmes in place, based on evidence Changed research and policy institutions and ways of making decisions Transformed investment pathways Green mega cities and reduced urban-rural divisions 2. What would success look like for Future Earth in the region? What impacts could Future Earth make in the region? • ...

4. Integration of technology, engineering and innovation, moving beyond integration of natural and social sciences A high level of scholarship Collegiality Understand interactions Governance of complex systems Partnerships Solutions oriented Involving young scientists Building capacity for integration and problem solving Curiosity driven and applied Co-evolution Collaboration Research alliances, across academies Increased investment in research capacity in less developed countries Redirect development research through Future Earth Form transnational links Knowledge sharing partnerships Use networks of member academies (but in some countries they are not funded) Exchange between young scientists A GEC node institution in each country Citizen participation in monitoring and data collation Modeling Co-design, but not to all aspects 3. What would be key requirements / steps to get there? • ...

5. Productive research alliances Funding agencies will have changed their structures and investment priorities Funding for biosphere and geo-sphere interactions available Elevated awareness of glocal environmental changes Increased citizen contribution to databases, observations Co-design and co-production is the normal way to work Food and water supply increased, and more secure and hazards managed on coastal zones Fundamental change to research behaviors, interdisciplinary research is highly visible Governments not solely talking about GDP New economic practices and systems will have emerged Young minds engaged and contributing to the next 20 years solutions More multi-disciplinary institutions 4. What would the success indicators be? • ...