Future Earth Mario Hernandez Future Earth Engagement Committee

"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?

1980 1987 1991 The International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research 1991 International Human Dimensions Programe on Global Change 1996 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 and 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 $ International Council of Science Union UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network International Social Science Council UNEP WMO UN UNIVERSITY UNESCO

D Distributed Secretariat (5 hubs) Stockholm Montreal China Paris Boulder © ESA Envisat Tokyo

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 • Workshop on the use of Earth Observation to support decision makers in the implementation of the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals • JAXA – Future Earth Japanese Hub – University of Tokyo (Institute for Advanced Studies) • 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 I N F O R M A T I O N All scientific disciplines decision makers society