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Sustainable Development – the Role of International Science

Sustainable Development – the Role of International Science. ICSU Headquarters, Paris February 2002. The Paris Meeting.

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Sustainable Development – the Role of International Science

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  1. Sustainable Development – the Role of International Science ICSU Headquarters, Paris February 2002

  2. The Paris Meeting • Organised by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) • Funded by an ICSU grant • Co-ordinated by IHDP (Sylvia Karlsson and Jill Jäger)

  3. ICSU IHDP IGBP WCRP START DIVERSITAS SCOPE IUBS IUGS IGU IGOS Participants (Alphabet Soup)

  4. Themes of the Workshop • Contributions so far • Planned contributions • Justifying the role of science for sustainable development • How science will have to change • Commitments to change

  5. The Role of Earth System Science • Global Change and the Earth System: A planet under pressure. IGBP Science Series No. 4, 2001 • Challenges of a Changing Earth: Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, July 2001

  6. How has science contributed to solving sustainability issues? • Example: cities where science has contributed to the reduction of air and water pollution • Future challenge: urbanisation and the increasing number of megacities

  7. Monitoring (**) Models (* - **) Education (*) Integrated Research (*) Training and Capacity Building (*) Communication (**) Earth System Science since Agenda 21 (a self-evaluation)

  8. Commitments of the Earth System Science Community • Building an improved, integrative, participatory and usable science, applicable from local to global scales • Responding to the urgent needs for monitoring, model development, integrated research, training and capacity building, education and communication

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