Transcript Future Earth

"Future Earth”
Mario Hernandez
Future Earth Engagement Committee
Joint CEOS – Working Group on Climate
CNES – Paris – 7 March 2016
"Future Earth – Data + Observations + Information”
Task Force
"Future Earth – Data + Observations + Information”
Task Force
Future Earth Network for Scientific Information to support
Sustainability (FENSIS)
Networking / Partnerships
What is Future Earth?
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The International Group
of Funding Agencies for
Global Change Research
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International Human Dimensions
Programe on Global Change
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Earth Systems Science
Partnership
2001
1980
1987
1991
The International Group
of Funding Agencies for
Global Change Research
1991
International Human Dimensions
Programe on Global Change
1996
2011
Earth Systems Science
Partnership
2001
WCRP and Future Earth
- WCRP is a well established programe
- Future Earth can enormously benefit from WCRP activities
- Future Earth to work in close cooperation with WCRP
- Previous programmes were not sufficiently linked.
- Some of the results they produced were scarcely picked up in practice, most never made it
beyond the pages of academic journals.
- Today sustainability researchers will need to follow a multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary —
approach that goes beyond what many scientists have been used to.
A science and technology
network platform
To build and connect global knowledge
To intensify the impact of research and
To find new ways to accelerate sustainable development
To support the decision making process
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Societal transformation
An interdisciplinary
research network
Scientific interdisciplinarity
The International Group
of Funding Agencies for
Global Change Research
Subset:
Belmont Forum
Gilberto Camara
co-chair
The Governing Council for Future Earth
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International Council of Science Union
UN Sustainable Development
Solutions Network
International Social Science Council
UNEP
WMO
UN UNIVERSITY
UNESCO
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Distributed Secretariat (5 hubs)
Stockholm
Montreal
China
Paris
Boulder
Tokyo
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Future Earth challenges
- To be successful Future Earth will win over academic researchers, stakeholders and, crucially,
funders.
- Ideally Future Earth could provide a successful example of how it will work in practice
- Governments and grant-giving agencies have not yet firmly committed to funding Future Earth as
a whole
- Future Earth could develop its own niche by coordinating that scientific evidence comes to the
desks of decision-makers
- The mountain of data from previous programmes remains relevant, new sustainability research,
no matter how interdisciplinary, should build on that heritage and focus on finding and closing
knowledge gaps
The Future Earth Data-Observations-Task Force
Future Earth Network for Scientific Information to support
Sustainability (FENSIS)
Future Earth Data, Observations and Information Task Force
A very crowded arena
Need to identify Future Earth’s ‘ niche’ (avoid duplication)
Then …. Make it happen
TOO MUCH Data vs NO data
New sources: Crowd sourcing, smartphones, social-media, big-data, drones, etc.
Harmonizing : earth-data + socio-economic data + political data
Developing concrete examples
Is science and technology being used to support the decision making process?
workshops
showcase examples
identify Future Earth activities
Activities in 2015
IPCC-GCOS Towards data to support Climate Change Adaptation, Bonn, Feb. 2015
International Symposium on Remote Sensing for Environment, Berlin, May 2015
Our Common Future under Climate Change, Paris, June 2015
Use of Earth Observation to support Future Earth, Beijing, June 2015
International Symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories,
Stockholm, June 2015
GEO Ministerial meeting, Mexico, November 2015
Future Earth becomes a Participatory Organization of GEO (Group on Earth
Observations – Ministerial decision Nov. 2015)
CEOS / CGMS emphasis: support decision making for adaptation
Adaptation  deeply linked with society; law;
governance; etc.
Can Future Earth support with research about the
required socio economic variables?
Extreme events 
deeply linked with society; law;
governance; etc.
Can Future Earth support with research about the required socio
economic variables?
Activities in 2015
ESA sponsors the secondement of Mrs. Cat Downy to Future Earth
Cat Downy member of the Task Force
Cat Downy encouraging and facilitating the use of EO
As a partner of GEO: EO to support the SDGs
indicators
Co-design
indicators
Co-design
data
indicators
Co-design
data
knowledge
indicators
Co-design
data
knowledge
Co-production
information
indicators
Co-design
data
knowledge
Co-production
information
Future Earth Support to the SDGs
• Proposal to the Gov. of Japan
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Workshop on the use of Earth Observation to support decision makers in the
implementation of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
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JAXA – Future Earth Japanese Hub – University of Tokyo (Institute for Advanced
Studies)
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GEO
Data integration towards information
Integrating EO data with socio- economic data
information
To be involved in e-infrastructure developments
GEO / GEOSS infrastructure
• Use the GEO/GEOSS infrastructure
• Put all efforts in order to improve it jointly
New sensors
The challenge
The challenge
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