Sustainability initiative in marginal seas

Reasons for undertaking

• Scientific understanding has to be translated into a roadmap for society;

• Long lag-times between scientific discovery and society’s response (e.g. harmful effects of lead in gasoline; ocean acidification);

• To achieve global sustainability societies have to more resilient

• Need to go beyond piecemeal approach – systems, multiple disciplines

Planning: Adopting framework of Future Earth

• A global platform for international research collaboration on GEC and SD

• Integrated research for transformations to sustainability

• Strengthening partnerships - researchers, funders and users of research

• Solutions-oriented

• Communicating science to society and society to science

• A more nimble innovation system for global sustainability

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Engagement: co-designing and co-producing research

Source: Mauser et al., COSUST, 2013

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WMO(observer)

Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability

Future Earth: structure

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Criteria for Future Earth Research

• Fundamental to use-inspired• Complex questions requiring

international collaboration• Regional to global scale• Integrates natural, economic,

engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences

Marine ecosystems at risk from multiple pressures

SIMSEA Programme Vision

An international alliance of physical, ecological and social scientists working together to generate policy and community-relevant knowledge towards sustainability of the marginal seas of South and East Asia

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By 2025 we will have...

1. New knowledge– New science linked to sustainable solutions of key problem

areas of the marginal seas– Concepts and methodologies for generating transformative

solutions and a lasting legacy for wider use2. New ways of working– Proven new ways of working, collaborating, engaging and

communicating3. New communities– Thriving new communities, able to develop sustainable

solutions, transformative understandings and new ways of collaborating and engaging, in the marginal seas of Asia.

Thank you for your attention.