Future Earth: Final Report of the Transition Team
The initial design phase of Future Earth is now coming to a close as the Transition Team, tasked with defining frameworks for Future Earth research and governance, put finishing touches on the final report. The report builds on a broad range of consultations with the global environmental change research community, from the Visioning process to consultations on the research agenda with the GEC programmes and projects and regional workshops in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Key highlights of the report include:
- How Future Earth will adopt an integrated and solutions-oriented approach to global environmental change issues to inform a transition to global sustainability.
- A proposed governance structure to ensure that excellence in research, across the range of natural and social sciences, engineering and humanities, and strategic stakeholder engagement, can be delivered under Future Earth.
- The importance of co-designing research with stakeholders, and initial thinking on how to address capacity building at global and regional levels, how to develop a strategic approach to communications and engagement
- Funding: current and future perspectives. Ways to open up the funding landscape for global environmental change research
- Concrete steps towards the implementation of Future Earth
Recommendations focus on the need for Future Earth to build partnerships, grow with its community, and innovate to deliver on its vision.
The report provides the foundation for the development of Future Earth and will inform the next round of consultations and outreach to mobilise scientists and experts, from global to national levels, as well as the work of the Alliance (acting as interim Governing Council), the Science Committee, the Engagement Committee and the Interim Secretariat as they become operational.
Conceptual research framework for Future Earth as of spring 2013.
Further Information can be found on the Future Earth website [1].
