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Welcome to Future Earth's monthly newsletter, featuring the latest news, events, and opportunities in global sustainability research. Please join Future Earth's Membership Portal to share your own news.

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News & Events

Announcing New Future Earth Global Secretariat Hubs

To better engage with critical sustainability issues, Future Earth is making a bold shift to become a more inclusive, accessible, transparent, and transformative organization, working to promote sustainability science across local, national, and global levels.

Earlier this year, Future Earth opened a call for expressions of interest to host Global Secretariat Hubs (as well as a Global Coordination Hub, to be announced in the near future) to any country or region working to promote global sustainability science and seeking to support Future Earth’s global mission. After a rigorous review process, Future Earth is pleased to announce its eight Global Secretariat Hubs here.

Future Earth’s Governance Transition – Governing Council Nominations

Future Earth is restructuring its governance and is now looking for nominations to populate its soon to be elected Governing Council.

All Future Earth community members are invited to nominate strategic leaders from the Future Earth Community to serve in their individual capacity as members of the new Future Earth Governing Council. Both Assembly and non-Assembly members are eligible for GC positions.

The nomination of Governing Council members is based on both self-nominations and nominations by others and necessitates completing this form before 10 September 2021.

Sustainability Research and Innovation Unlocked: Access Over 100 Expert Sessions Online

Recordings of sessions at the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021) are now available to watch online through the Congress platform.

There is a wealth of knowledge and learning to explore with over 100 presentations, discussions, panels and workshops exploring some of the most urgent intersections of science, policy, and technology.

Catch any sessions you may have missed with free access included in your event ticket. For more details, click here.

Pathways Newsletter, Pathways Forum Launching Soon

The Science-Based Pathways initiative is pleased to announce that the Pathways newsletter and the Pathways Forum will launch this September. The Pathways Forum is a series of interactive webinars focusing on the conceptual and practical implications of engaging in sustainability and transdisciplinarity in research. The first Forum will take place on 23 September 2021 1-2:30pm CEST (more details in the Pathways newsletter).

The Pathways newsletter will provide information about activities, opportunities, and recent publications related to pathways for sustainability. It will also highlight relevant projects and collaborative events stemming from the community. Sign up here to embark on this new and exciting journey.

Project Progress

Global Research Projects & Knowledge-Action Networks

Lancet Publication Series on Heat and Health launched with Health Knowledge-Action Network co-chairs

The Lancet Series on Heat and Health is undertaken by Health Knowledge-Action Network co-chairs Anthony Capon and Kristie Ebi. Together with Professor Ollie Jay from the University of Sydney, they developed a timely series combining the knowledge related to extreme heat and what can be done on various scales to mitigate the effects of heat and prevent mortality.

As the global community contends with even hotter weather in a changing climate, there was a pressing need to better understand the most effective prevention and response measures, particularly in low-resource settings. The series brings together perspectives from epidemiology, physiology and medicine with those from climate science, built environment, and sustainable development. Read more here.

Upcoming SSCP KAN Webinar Series: Grappling with the Question of Sustainable Consumption in the Global South

A three-part webinar series will be organized by the Working Group on the Political Economy of Sustainable Consumption and Production on 15, 22 and 28 September 2021. Mainstream sustainability discourse usually holds that the Global South is poor, and therefore, the question of how to talk about sustainable consumption in the Global South is irrelevant. While it most certainly is a question for the “rich world” and the rich world needs to take primary responsibility, the Global South is also urgently confronted by it in unique ways.

This three-part series of interactive webinars invites you to join scholars and activists to explore and advance an appropriate vocabulary and knowledge-action agenda for sustainable consumption in the Global South. Find more information and registration details here.

Pieces from Anthropocene Magazine's new series

The Direct-Air Capture Debate

Is now the moment for wartime-level investment in technologies that suck carbon out of thin air? More here.

Green Hydrogen Is Bubbling with Hype—Again

Is this time for real? More here.

The Wild Ride of This Energy Transition

Change is happening in jolts, confounding expectations. Is that a cause for dread—or optimism? More here.

The Tricky Business of Tipping Cows

Will “peak beef” happen fast enough to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century? More here.

Taking Off in Two Directions at Once

The quickest flight path to decarbonizing aviation could be less air travel—but it also might be a lot more of it. More here.

Events & Opportunities

To see more upcoming events, and share your own, visit the Future Earth Membership Portal.

SSCP KAN Webinar Series: Grappling with the Question of Sustainable Consumption in the Global South

15, 22, 28 September 2021

Find out more and register here.

PAGES working group applications and/or financial support for workshops or meetings

Closes: 20 September 2021

The next call for applications for new PAGES working groups and/or financial support to hold a workshop or meeting closes 20 September. You must contact a PAGES SSC member at least two weeks before the deadline to advise them of your plans.

Information about creating a new working group here.

Information about applying for financial support to conduct a workshop or meeting from April 2022 onwards here.

PAGES working group applications and/or financial support for workshops or meetings

Closes: 20 September 2021

The next call for applications for new PAGES working groups and/or financial support to hold a workshop or meeting closes 20 September. You must contact a PAGES SSC member at least two weeks before the deadline to advise them of your plans.

Information about creating a new working group can be found here.

Information about applying for financial support to conduct a workshop or meeting from April 2022 onwards can be found here.

PAGES-IAI Fellowship Program

Closes: 30 September 2021

PAGES and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) are pleased to announce a new fellowship opportunity for Latin American and Caribbean early-career scientists. The International Mobility Research Fellowship Program supports Latin American and Caribbean early-career scientists pursuing international research experience in paleoscience. It will cover the costs associated with travel and living expenses while abroad. This program, which will run for a minimum of two years, will support up to six fellowships per year.

The call for applications is now open. Fellowships will be awarded for a short duration (one to three months) and must be used within 12 months. The deadline for applications is 30 September at 23:00 UYT (02:00 UTC 1 October). More info here.

Joint European Space Agency (ESA) - Future Earth programme's 2021 call for collaborative research activities

Closes: 30 September 2021

The programme aims to facilitate the development and uptake of Earth observation data by Future Earth’s research networks.

Proposals are particularly welcomed on the themes of biodiversity, climate impacts on human health, or climate tipping elements, to better understand feedbacks, interactions and instabilities, but is not exclusive to these themes. The activities should address pressing research questions that are a priority for the networks, supported up to 20,000EUR. It is an open call to the GRPs and KANs. Full details here.

The Second International Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East

11-12 October 2021

The Second International Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East will take place at the Aphrodite Hills Resort, Cyprus on October 13-14, 2021. This is a follow-on to the most successful and important First Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, which took place in Nicosia in May 2018.

The Conference will bring together regional governments and international scientists, policy-makers, experts and decision-makers in order to discuss scientific recommendations upon which to form a Regional Climate Action Plan for the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (EMME) region. Details here.

This Month's Quote

“Climate change is already affecting every region on Earth, in multiple ways. The changes we experience will increase with additional warming."

– Panmao Zhai, IPCC Working Group I Co-Chair

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