Planet Under Pressure

Planet Under Pressure Map Home0 #145319 DebateGraph and the scientists behind the Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference are collaborating to distill the main arguments, evidence, risks and policy options facing humanity into a dynamic knowledge map to help to convey and inform the global deliberation at UN Rio+20 and beyond.
Read more about the project in Global Change magazine The London Planet Under Pressure conference, from which this mapping project originates and which was addressed by Ban Ki-moon in March 2012: provided a comprehensive update of our knowledge of the Earth system and the pressure our planet is now under, and examined the latest scientific evidence on climate change, ecological degradation, human well-being, planetary thresholds, food security, energy, governance across scales, and poverty alleviation. discussed solutions, at all scales, to move societies on to a sustainable pathway – guided by the International Council for Science’s five grand challenges for global sustainability research: observations, forecasting, thresholds, governance and economic requirements, and innovation (technological, political and societal), as well as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the new biodiversity assessment, and the Millennium Development Goals. set out a new vision and platform for global-change research that connects leading social and natural scientists with business, investors and the development agenda to create a new understanding and environment for tackling global sustainability challenges. stressed that there must be many governance and technological solutions at all levels, from local and national, to regional and global – and that while there are many threats, global change also provides many opportunities. discussed policy options in response to climate change, energy, food security, water, poverty and other pressing issues. This global mapping project is a voluntary, collaborative, cross-disciplinary initiative to create and share an authorititive public resource at a critical time in the build up to UN Rio+20 and beyond. If you would like learn more about the project, join the mapping team, or support the process in any other way, we would love to hear from you (or via @DebateGraph) .
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DIVERSITAS

Author: DIVERSITAS
Cited by: David Price 10:40 PM Thursday 15 March 2012 GMT
URL: http://www.diversitas-international.org/

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By linking biology, ecology and social sciences, DIVERSITAS produces socially relevant new knowledge to support sustainable use of biodiversity.

Earth System Science Partnership

Author: Earth System Science Partnership
Cited by: David Price 10:42 PM Thursday 15 March 2012 GMT
URL: http://www.essp.org/

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ESSP is a partnership of the four international global-change programmes. It is an integrated study of the Earth System, the ways that it is changing, and the implications for global and regional sustainability.

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

Author: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
Cited by: David Price 10:39 PM Thursday 15 March 2012 GMT
URL: http://www.igbp.net/

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IGBP provides essential international scientific leadership and knowledge of the Earth system to help guide society onto a sustainable pathway during rapid global change.

International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change

Author: International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
Cited by: David Price 10:41 PM Thursday 15 March 2012 GMT
URL: http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/

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IHDP provides international leadership in framing, developing and integrating social science research on global environmental change, and promote key findings of this research to help address these changes.

World Climate Research Programme

Author: World Climate Research Programme
Cited by: David Price 10:41 PM Thursday 15 March 2012 GMT
URL: http://www.wcrp-climate.org/

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WCRP improves climate predictions and our understanding of human influence on climate through observations and modelling of the Earth system and the policy-relevant assessment of climate conditions.