Future Earth: Research Program for Global Sustainability
Will the present World Research Programs WCRP, IGBP, IHDP, DIVERSITAS and ESSC be replaced?
Future Earth is a new 10-year initiative which aims to deliver knowledge to enable societies to meet their sustainable development goals in the coming decades. "Future Earth" will replace the existing World Programs IGBP, IHDP, Diversitas and ESSP. WCRP will become a partner. The core projects may be adopted, if they can contribute to the new vision.
The goals of the Initiative are:
- To deliver at global and regional scales the knowledge that societies need to effectively address global change while meeting economic and social goals, by answering the most pressing questions the world needs answered in the context of securing human development in an era of rapidly escalating global environmental risks;
- To coordinate and focus international scientific research in order to address the Grand Challenges arising from the ICSU-ISSC Visioning process and the Belmont Challenge in a fully integrated way;
- To engage a new generation of researchers in the social, economic, natural, health, and engineering sciences in global sustainability research.
Detailed information, an extended slide show and updated information can be found at the Future Earth homepage [1]