Sustainable Development – the Role of International Science ICSU Headquarters, Paris February 2002
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)
Participants (Alphabet Soup) ICSU IHDP IGBP WCRP START DIVERSITAS SCOPE IUBS IUGS IGU IGOS
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
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
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
Earth System Science since Agenda 21 (a self-evaluation) Monitoring (**) Models (* - **) Education (*) Integrated Research (*) Training and Capacity Building (*) Communication (**)
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