future earth 8 june 2016

research for global sustainability

NameTitle

NASA

What is Future Earth?

INRA/C. Maitre

Erik Pihl

Erik Pihl

NASA


Building an international research community for global

sustainability


Built on 30 years of international research


Supporting research on the planet’s most

pressing challenges


Working together with partners in policy, business, civil society & more

is a research platform

for the Anthropocene…

1. Unite around a common research agenda for global sustainability science

2. Engage societies in new ways

3. Encourage, catalyse and synthesise highquality research to support transformation

CHALLENGES

“Research now demonstrates that the continued functioning of the Earth system as it has supported the well-being of the human civilizations in recent centuries is at risk.”

--State of the Planet Declaration (2012)

Knowledge-Action Networks

Cities

Health

Oceans

Water-Energy-

Food NexusSDGs

Natural assets

Transformations

Finance &

Economics

Decarbonisation

• Challenge: To inform the management of natural assets to preserve human wellbeing and biodiversity

• Status: Contributed to the 4th

Plenary Session of IPBES in February

• Targets: Will launch a broad consultation by the end of 2016 to engage diverse communities of researchers and stakeholders

Natural Assets

Oceans

• Challenge: To address the most pressing challenges to ocean sustainability through solutions-oriented research

• Status: Developing a funding strategy; will hold co-scoping workshops in summer 2016

• Targets: Will assist the Belmont Forum in designing a Collaborative Research Action (CRA) on ocean sustainability

Transformations

• Challenge: To understand and inform how societies can make transitions toward sustainability

• Status: Working in tandem with the ISSC Transformations project suite launched in January 2016; submitted global call for expression of interest

• Goals: Will partner on a major conference on transformations in Dundee, UK, in 2017

Water-Energy-Food

• Challenge: To explore the interactions between water, energy and food and how these relationships are shaped by environmental and social changes

• Status: Formed initial development team including partners inside and out of Future Earth

• Targets: Will complete the scoping process for initial activities in mid-2017

Finance & Economics

• Challenge: To support strategies for linking economic prosperity with social justice and a healthy planet

• Status: Organized stakeholder forum at Our Common Future Conference; confirming partnership with UNEP Inquiry for a Sustainable Financial System

• Targets: Will hold scoping webinars in early 2017

Health

• Challenge: To promote research for a better understand of the relationships between changing environments and human health

• Status: Formed initial development team; conducting formal and informal consultations with health community and other

• Targets: Will hold Bellagio scoping workshop with funding from Rockefeller Foundation in mid-2016

Cities

• Challenge: To contribute to the transition toward sustainable urban futures where cities are more livable, equitable and resilient through solutions-oriented research

• Status: Producing a white paper to engage with the Habitat III process

• Targets: Will release a book from the Urban Fast Track Initiative to coincide with Habitat III

Sustainable Development Goals

• Challenge: To promote high-quality scientific research as a tool and approach for achieving the SDGs

• Status: Co-organized two workshops, Measuring SDGs in 2015 and Foresighting SDGs in 2016

• Targets: Will establish an organizing committee for a 2017 conference on “SDGs in the Anthropocene” in partnership with GEO and support from IGBP funds

WHY JOIN US?• Part of an international community

committed to transformation and a coordinated research agenda

• International conferences to meet and share ideas (physical and virtual)

• Intellectual frameworks for co-design solutions-based research

• Route to engage with international policy processes

• International support for media, communications, capacity building, young scientist career development

GET CONNECTED

futureearth.org facebook.com/futureearth.org

@FutureEarth

Groundbreaking fora

2015 20212018 2024

International

Regional

National

Physical and/or virtual

Our common future conference 7-10 July

Ségolène Royal, Minister for Ecology, Sustainability and Energy, France, opens the conference

Co-sponsored by Future Earth, ICSU, UNESCO

50% of sessions solutions focussed

Contributing to COP21Outcome statement

2000 participants

100 journalists

• By building global communities of practice around key themes in sustainability

• By promoting research that informs solutions to real problems around the world

• By bringing together researchers, policy experts, businesses, leaders in civil society and more

How can we address these challenges?

• Global in scope but designed to inspire transformations at the local level

• Responsive to the needs of societies around the world

• Co-designed and co-produced with the people who will use the results of our research

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