Presentation on Future Earth's approach to collaborative science in the Anthropocene at the 51st Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress in Toronto. June 5, 2017

1. research for global sustainability
NASA
51st CMOS/SCMO Congress
A Transdisciplinary Approach to Future Earth
June 5th, 2017

2. • Introduction to Future
Earth
• Future Earth Oceans
Knowledge-Action
Network
• How to get involved!?
Outline

3. Thank you to the Montreal Global Hub
Funders & supporters!

4. What is Future Earth?
INRA/C. Maitre
Erik Pihl
Erik Pihl
NASA

6. The Doughnut
of social &
planetary
boundaries
Kate Raworth, 2017

7. Stockholm Resilience Center, 2016
Sustainable
Development
Goals
[SDGs]
• Top 1% with as
much wealth as
bottom 99%
• 6th Great
Extinction -
~50% world's
biodiversity
gone
• $5-7T/annum
investment until
2030 to achieve
SDGs

8. • By building global
communities of practice for
sustainability
• By promoting research that
informs solutions to real
problems around the world
• By bringing together
researchers, policy experts,
businesses, leaders in civil
society and more
How do we aim address the SDGs?

9. Knowledge-Action Networks
Cities
Health
Oceans
Water-Energy-
Food Nexus
SDG
s
Natural assets
Transformations
Finance &
Economics
Decarbonisation

10. Oceans Knowledge-
Action Network
• Building science-to-action communities
• Connecting researchers, leaders in civil society and the
public and private sector, communicators, and funders
• Build transdisciplinary teams that can respond to funding
opportunities
• Identify transdisciplinary research priorities for specific
funding opportunities (e.g. Belmont CRA) and for the oceans
sustainability community more broadly

11. To learn more about this Knowledge-Action Network,
contact Craig : oceans@futureearth.org