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Workshop Organising committee Member of ICSU regional committee Chuluun Togtokh Director General of the Department of Green Development Policy and Planning, Ministry of Environment and Green Development, Mongolia Member of ISSC regional network Jiahua Pan Director, Institute for Urban & Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Representative of the GEC programme Candice Lung IGBP / International Global Atmospheric Chemistry SSC member Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica Regional partner Akio Takemoto/ Yukihiro Imanari / Linda Stevenson/ Andrew Matthews APN Secretariat Member of the Future Earth Transition Team Tandong Yao Director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1 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) 3 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 4 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 5 2009-2011: ICSU-ISSC Visioning Five Grand Challenges: a new way of doing research An overarching framework 6 A global Alliance Future Earth: research for global sustainability WMO as observer Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability 7 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 Programmes Directors 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 9 Future Earth: goal To provide the knowledge required for societies in the world to face risks posed by global environmental change and to seize opportunities in a transition to global sustainability 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 Future Earth: a framework to unify existing bodies Global Environmental Change Programmes FUTURE EARTH 1991 1980 1986 1996 2001 and their partnership all co-sponsored by ICSU 12 2013 Timeline towards implementation 18-month initial design Future Earth:10-year initiative Interim phase Transition Team Jun 2011 May 2014 Dec Jan 2012 2013 ESSP ends Transition management board operational phase 2022 Interim secretariat Operational secretariat Interim governance Governing Council Science Committee Integration of existing projects Call for new projects 13 A word from the Transition Team co-chair................ 15