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Future Earth KANs + Sustainable Consumption and Production

Paul Shrivastava, Ph.D.Executive Director, Future Earth

Acceleration - Planetary Boundary- Anthropocene

2Steffen, Broadgate, Deutsch, Gaffney, Ludwig (January 2015) Anthropocene Review

Trends Effects

Global Consensus

New World, New Concepts &

PracticesNew Role for Science

• Transdisciplinary – Solutions Oriented

• Holistic, Systemic, Integrative• Stakeholder Engaged

– Connected, Codesigned, – Responsive to society

• Planetary to local scales

1. Deliver water, energy, and food for all, and

manage the synergies and trade-offs among them

2. Decarbonise socio-economic systems to stabilisethe climate by promoting the

technological, economic, social, political and

behavioural transformations

3. Safeguard the terrestrial, freshwater and

marine natural assets, biodiversity, ecosystem

services, valuation & governance

4. Build healthy, resilient and productive cities,

combining better living, declining resource

footprints, and resilience to disasters

5. Promote sustainable rural futures to feed rising

populations, changes in biodiversity, resources

6. Improve human health interactions with

environmental pollution, pathogens, disease vectors,

ecosystem services, livelihoods, nutrition

7. Encourage sustainable consumption and

production patterns that are equitable

FE 2025 Vision Challenges

EcoHEALTH

New name: Future (Earth) Coasts

Knowledge Action Networks

• KAN Concept – collaboration networks that facilitate integrative sustainability research to inform solutions for Vision 2025 challenges

• Broadening work of the former Global Environmental Change [GEC] programmes

• Bring multiple disciplines and societal actors together to respond to the global challenges

• Composed of Core Projects, Fast-Tack Initiatives and Clusters, endorsed and associated organisations, projects, and individuals that are part of the Future Earth Open Network.

• Contributions voluntary through members• Document - Objectives, Principles,

Participation-Governance

KAN Objectives and Principles

Objectives

• identify and respond to society’s needs for high quality scientific knowledge for transformation to sustainability

• generate integrated knowledge that is relevant to the key decision-makers concerned with the KAN topics, in public and private sectors at global to local levels

• develop and cultivate solution-driven, transdisciplinary research i.e. designed and produced in collaboration with societal partners.

• add value to research that is or has been carried out already, by prioritizing questions, integrating research and knowledge, generating synthesis, identifying gaps and opportunities, and stimulating new research.

PrinciplesCo-creation: community priorities, develop plan -globally inclusive, synergy with existing projectsScope: Address 2025 Vision societal challenges and the three Research Themes Uniqueness: Fill knowledge gaps defined collaboratively with experts + users, synthesize and synergizeStrategy: Solution-orientation, interdisciplinarity, and co-design and co-production with partners.Outcomes: products and accomplishing tangible goals identified by co-designInternationality: Global community of researchers and practitioners beyond national or regional.Openness: Accessible for participation from interested and suitable persons and projectsInclusiveness: Inclusiveness and balance in disciplines, professional backgrounds, geographies, career stage, and gender.

• Membership: driven by the research community and relevant stakeholders, open and inclusive to participation.

• Leadership: Once defined and scoped, led by a steering group sized and structured to implement a workplan, balanced representation from Core Projects, societal partners, early-career practitioners, funding communities, SC and EC, Sec, global South and North, and gender

• Oversight: The SC/EC provides strategic guidance, and Secretariat oversees operations, Governing Council approves strategic changes.

• Management: Overall management by Steering Group and, additional management staff, plus FE Secretariat support

• Support: Future Earth Secretariat ensures the continuous progress through coordination and help in identifying new actors and communities of researchers, stakeholders and decision makers, and through communication, synthesis coordination, capacity building, engagement support, event organisation, online tools, and technical support

KANs - Participation & Governance

• Secretariat will work in the early stages to obtain seed funding to support co-design, scoping

• The bulk of the required additional funds shouldbe leveraged from external sources

• Mix of public-sector funds (such as Belmont Forum-Collaborative Research Actions on T-KAN, FWEn in Urbanization) and private foundations, private-sector partnerships, and individual donors.

• Operationalization – Initiation, Scoping, Co-producing Research, Synthesis, Engagement

KANs Resources, Funding, Operationalization

Approved Knowledge-Action Networks

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ThemesChallenges

Dynamic Planet Sustainable Development

Transformations to Sustainability

1. Water, food, energy for all

2. Decarbonise socioeconomic systems & adapt

3. Safeguard natural assets

4. Build healthy, resilient cities

5. Sustainable rural futures

6. Improve human health under GEC

7. Sustainable consumption and prod’n

8. Social resilience to future threatsFinance

Transform-ations

Future Oceans

SDGs

Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Future cities

Future health

Natural assets

Disaster reduction

(with IRDR)

New Technologies

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Sustainable Production and Consumption• Vision 2025 - 7. Encourage

sustainable consumption and production patterns that are equitable by understanding the social and environmental impacts of consumption of all resources, opportunities for decoupling resource use from growth in well-being, and options for sustainable development pathways and related changes in human behaviour.

• SDG Goal 12: Responsible consumption, production

• Re-Infrastructuring - Food, Water, Energy• Manufacturing Systems

– Eco-efficiencies in Input, Output, Throughput– Eco-design of products, services, packaging– Waste management, recycling, reuse

• Supply Chain Management• Research Networks

– ISVC - Joerg Hofstatter– Closed Loop Supply Chain Mgt– POM Society– Organizations and Nat Env Academy of Mgmnt– GRONEN

Sustainable Production

Data, Tools, Gaps

• Data- CDP + Truecost, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley financial/investment focused

• Tools - Lifecycle analysis, -accounting, costing, reporting tools - SASB, GRI

• Gaps-– Financial Economy-Manuf Economy – bioeconomy (natural

resources usage, disposal, recovery)– Carbon footprint of industries and corporations,

• Linkages with other KANs– FWEn - Food supply chains and their vulnerabilities– Future Earth Cities - energy decentralization esp in urban areas

• urban food production, transport, storage, recycling– FE Finance - decarbonizing susbidies

Sustainable Consumption• World Wide Waste

– Food 40%, Energy 40%, Housing 50%, Transport 75%

• Inequality – extremes• Consumption Risks

– Health (1 billion hungry) but 2 billion diabetic– Biocapacity overshoot

• New Consumption – Smart Consumption - shared economy, – Frugality, – Aging consumption

• Networks - Voluntary simplicity movement– International Centre for Anti- Consumption

Research – Consumption Sociology

The Challenge of Sustainable

Production & Consumption