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November 17, 2015

Reflections on a three-decade legacy

News | The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) will come to a close at the end of this year after three decades of fostering international collaborative research and synthesis on global change.
November 17, 2015

Use of and access to content on this website

News | Text and images produced by IGBP in house are free to use with appropriate credits.
November 12, 2015

Bella Gaia performance and panel discussion to mark IGBP's closure

News | A musical performance by Bella Gaia will celebrate the achievements and legacy of IGBP. The performance will be held in San Francisco on 17 December 2015.
October 27, 2015

IGBP @ AGU 2015: update

News | IGBP will hold its Landmark Synthesis Event at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in December this year. Preparations for the event are in full swing. Here's a brief update.
September 28, 2015

iLEAPS newsletter special issue on Asia: call for contributions

News | The Integrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS) invites short articles for its November 2015 special issue newsletter. Please submit by October 15 .
September 21, 2015

Workshop: Effects of ocean acidification on ecosystems and human societies

News | This free workshop will assess the Swedish research capacity and prospects for national and international collaboration. It will be held from 24-25 November 2015. Please register by 20 October.
September 21, 2015

Vacancy: Global Land Project seeks Executive Officer

News | The Global Land Project (GLP) is seeking applications for the position of Executive Officer of its International Project Office (IPO), which will be hosted by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Apply by 17 October 2015 .
July 27, 2015

Call for contributions to GLP newsletter: biodiversity and land systems

News | The Global Land Project (GLP) invites short articles on the relationship between biodiversity and land systems for its October 2015 newsletter.
July 23, 2015

Workshop on co-design and co-production for early-career scientists

News | This workshop will be held in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December 2015. Future Earth and IGBP invite applications from early-career scientists from around the world. Please apply by 28 August.
June 18, 2015

AGU Fall Meeting 2015: Submit abstracts to sessions co-sponsored by IGBP

News | IGBP is co-sponsoring over 60 scientific sessions as part of its package of activities at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. We strongly encourage global-change researchers and practitioners to submit abstracts to these sessions by the 5 August deadline.
June 17, 2015

Call for abstracts for the PECS 2015 conference

News | The deadline for submitting abstracts to this conference entitled "Social-ecological dynamics in the Anthropocene" is 21 June . The conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 3-5 November 2015.
June 11, 2015

Vacancy: Executive Director, PAGES

News | The Past Global Changes (PAGES) project is seeking applications for the position of Executive Director. The closing date for applications is 26 July 2015.
June 3, 2015

IGBP-APN special issue of Weather and Extremes journal

News | The outcomes of IGBP's synthesis on the needs of least-developed countries are documented in a special issue of the Weather and Extremes journal published last month. The synthesis was led by IGBP Scientific Committee member Pauline Dube and funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research.
June 1, 2015

GLP newsletter issue on co-design and co-production

News | The latest issue of the newsletter of the Global Land Project (GLP) focuses on the co-design and co-production of knowledge.
May 28, 2015

Call for proposals to host the AIMES International Project Office

News | The Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System (AIMES) project is inviting proposals from institutions that interested in hosting its International Project Office. The ideal institution will have an international reputation in global environmental change, with a particular interest in modelling complex systems and human-environment interactions.
May 22, 2015

PAGES Scientific Committee: call for nominations

News | The Past Global Changes (PAGES) project invites nominations for membership of its Scientific Steering Committee for terms beginning in 2016.
April 29, 2015

Science meeting on the tropical tropopause layer

News | The website for registration and abstract submission is now open for the open meeting " Composition and Transport in the Tropical Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere " to be held in Boulder, CO on 20-23 July, 2015.
April 24, 2015

SOLAS Open Science Conference 2015: financial assistance for early-career scientists

News | Limited financial support will be available for early-career scientists from developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
April 24, 2015

Registration open for Sustainable Development Goals: A water perspective

News | The Global Water System Project (GWSP) and its International Project Office (IPO), with financial support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is organizing the international conference on Sustainable Development Goals: A water perspective to be held at MARITIM Hotel, Bonn, Germany on 17-18 August 2015.
April 17, 2015

International symposium and public lecture: Integrated Science for Sustainable Transitions

News | The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and IGBP will jointly host a symposium on 29 April 2015 in connection with IGBP's 30th Scientific Committee meeting. The symposium will commemorate Dr. Mike Raupach, a longstanding member of the IGBP community who passed away earlier this year.
April 17, 2015

IGAC Scientific Steering Committee: call for nominations

News | The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project invites nominations for membership of its Scientific Steering Committee for terms starting on 1 January 2016.
April 17, 2015

IGAC/SPARC workshop: first announcement

News | The IGAC/SPARC chemistry-climate initiative workshop will be held on 7-9 October 2015 in Frascati (Rome), Italy.
April 13, 2015

AGU Fall Meeting 2015: organise a session co-sponsored by IGBP

News | IGBP will hold its landmark synthesis event at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December 2015. The IGBP community is strongly encouraged to submit session proposals and indicate IGBP co-sponsorship. The deadline for submitting session proposals is 22 April .
April 9, 2015

Vacancy: Future Earth Research Liaison Officer

News | The Stockholm Hub of Future Earth has an opening for one Research Liaison Officer. The closing date for applications is 10 May 2015.
April 9, 2015

Syvitski receives honorary degree

News | IGBP Chair James Syvitski has received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Newcastle University. The degree will be awarded in July 2016.
April 9, 2015

The Ocean in a High-CO2 World symposium

News | The fourth international symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World will take place in Hobart, Australia, from 3-6 May 2016. www.highco2-iv.org
April 9, 2015

SOLAS Open Science Conference 2015

News | Shape the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Open Science Conference, 7-11 September. You can give a talk, present a poster or organise a discussion session.
March 30, 2015

'Mountains as sentinels of change': call for funding pre-proposals

News | This call aims to foster research on climate, environmental, and related societal change in mountain regions, considering new measurements, recovery of existing data, and the development and use of integrated modelling strategies by adopting a strong trans- and inter-disciplinary approach.
March 17, 2015

Vacancy: Director, Tokyo hub of Future Earth

News | The Tokyo (Japan) hub of the Future Earth Secretariat is accepting applications for secondment as Director. The closing date is April 10, 2015. For more information see: http://www.futureearth.org/vacancy-future-earth-global-hub-directors.
February 20, 2015

Future Earth executive director announced

News | Paul Shrivastava, a leading expert in sustainable enterprise based in Montreal, has been appointed first Executive Director of Future Earth .
February 17, 2015

Long-time IGBP supporter, Lou Brown, has passed away

News | The IGBP community is mourning the passing of Lou Brown, retired Senior Staff Associate for International Affairs at the US National Science Foundation's Directorate for Geosciences, who died last weekend. Lou was a great friend and supporter of IGBP. We will miss him.
February 16, 2015

Role of ice in the sea symposium: abstract deadline 28 February

News | The Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) project will hold its 10th Annual Science Meeting in Seattle 15-17 June 2015. As part of this meeting, there will be a 2.5-day symposium on “The Role of Ice in the Sea”.
February 16, 2015

Global change researchers mourn death of Mike Raupach

News | Tributes have been pouring in for Professor Mike Raupach, co-founder of the Global Carbon Project, who passed away 10 February.
February 10, 2015

IGBP @AGU 2015: Save the date

News | The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme is planning a series of events at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting to celebrate our past and to Transition to Future Earth. We invite all our networks and partners to participate.
December 19, 2014

An integrated framework for Sustainable Development Goals

News | New research published in Ecology and Society indicates that it may be possible to develop integrated targets relating to food, energy and water for the proposed Sustainable Development Goals , which will be agreed at the UN General Assembly in 2015.
December 19, 2014

International coastal research project to open in Cork, Ireland

News | The city of Cork in southwest Ireland has been selected to host the Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone project (LOICZ) - a major international research programme focusing on the world’s coasts.
December 5, 2014

Vacancy: Future Earth hub directors

News | Future Earth is seeking five Global Hub Directors for its headquarters in Boulder (USA), Montreal (Canada), Paris (France), Stockholm (Sweden) and Tokyo (Japan). They're also looking for a Deputy Director (Synthesis & Foresight) for the Paris office. First deadline 16 January 2015.
December 5, 2014

World's deltas face severe threats, warns IGBP chair James Syvitski

News | James Syvitski and colleagues argue the United Nations must take urgent action to protect the world's deltas, in the international journal Nature .
December 4, 2014

Latest Global Change magazine out now

News | This issue features a special section on carbon. You can read about peak greenhouse-gas emissions in China, the mitigation of black carbon emissions and the effect of the 2010-2011 La Niña event on global carbon sinks. The issue also includes a feature on how past human experience could inform current and future policies.
December 4, 2014

Future Earth announces major research agenda

News | The Future Earth research programme has published its Strategic Research Agenda following a year-long global consultation on the priorities for global change research. Experts have identified eight key challenges for sustainable development.
December 4, 2014

Vacancy: Executive Officer for international coasts project

News | The Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zones (LOICZ) project is seeking a new Executive Officer. Deadline for applications: 18 December .
November 10, 2014

Future Earth vision for 2025 published

News | The new ten-year research initiative Future Earth has published its vision for 2025. The vision outlines eight challenges the programme will focus on to contribute to sustainable development.
November 7, 2014

Major climate conference - call for session proposals

News | A major international conference entitled “Our Common Future Under Climate Change” (7-10 July 2015, Paris) has issued a call for parallel session submissions. Deadline 30 November 2014.
November 4, 2014

Three decades in Sweden celebration

News | On 20 October IGBP held an event to celebrate our three decades in Sweden.
October 24, 2014

Eric Lambin wins top environment prize

News | The 2014 Volvo Environment Prize has been awarded to Eric Lambin. Lambin was chair of the IGBP-sponsored Land Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) project from 1999 to 2005.
October 6, 2014

IGBP – 30 years in Sweden

News | On 20 October IGBP will celebrate three decades in Sweden with an event at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
October 2, 2014

Vacancy: Future Earth executive director

News | Future Earth is recruiting an Executive Director. Deadline 12 October.
September 29, 2014

Nature interview: IGBP Chair James Syvitski discusses Future Earth

News | In this month's Nature Climate Change James Syvitski discusses his time as Chair of IGBP during the transition to the new international research initiative Future Earth.
September 29, 2014

Ocean Acidification Summary for Policymakers now available in German

News | A German version of the Ocean Acidification summary for policymakers has now been published by BIOACID (German programme on Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification).
September 23, 2014

Call to host Global Land Project International Office

News | IGBP and Future Earth invite calls from institutes to host the International Project Office of the Global Land Project (GLP). Deadline for expressions of interest 25 October 2014.
September 21, 2014

2014 Global carbon budget released

News | China’s fossil-fuel emissions now exceed Europe and US emissions combined according to the latest global carbon budget released by IGBP's Global Carbon Project. Scientists say carbon-dioxide emissions in 2014 are set to reach a new 40-billion-tonne record high. The remaining carbon-dioxide emission ‘quota’ may be used up in 30 years.
September 12, 2014

Global Carbon Project - new committe members announced

News | The Global Carbon Project (GCP) announced recently two new co-chairs, Nebojsa Nakicenovic from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna and Rob Kackson from Duke University in North Carolina.
August 25, 2014

Downscaling planetary boundaries for regions

News | New open-access paper published in the journal Global Environmental Change, " Safe and just operating spaces for regional and social-ecological systems " based on IGBP workshop.
August 19, 2014

SOLAS announces call for scientific committee members

News | The Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) has announced a call for nominations to its scientific committee. The deadline for applications is 22 September 2014.
August 12, 2014

IPBES call for members

News | The new Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiveristy and Ecoystems Services (IPBES) is accepting nominations for its "Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP)". Deadline 15 August.
July 3, 2014

Future Earth secretariat announced

News | The secretariat for the new ten-year research initiative Future Earth has been announced. Future Earth's secretariat will span three continents with five global hubs in Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm and Boulder, Colorado (U.S.)
June 26, 2014

IGBP's second synthesis

News | Following IGBP's first landmark synthesis published in 2004 Global Change and the Earth System: a planet under pressure (Springer), we are embarking on our second synthesis scheduled for completion in 2015. The synthesis will bring together the key Earth-system research findings in the last decade from across our projects to build on the foundations of concepts such as the Anthropocene and planetary stewardship.
June 25, 2014

IGBP Annual report now out

News | IGBP's latest annual report has just been published. The report highlights research from across IGBP's nine projects including palaeoclimate, marine science, land-use change and atmospheric chemistry.
May 23, 2014

Record rainfall turned Australia into giant carbon sink

News | In 2010-2011, exceptional rainfall lashed Australia creating a flood disaster zone the size of France, Germany and Italy combined. The additional vegetation resulting from the rainfall turned Australia into a giant carbon sink soaking up 4 billion tons of carbon in 2011 – the equivalent of more than 40% of emissions from burning fossil fuels that year - according to researchers for the Global Carbon Project in Nature .
May 12, 2014

UK announces call for African climate-related proposals

News | A major new £20m research programme Future Climate for Africa (FCFA), funded by the UK's aid agency DFID and environmental funding agency NERC, has announced two calls for proposal relating to climate variability and global climate models for Africa.
May 8, 2014

European space agency to fund 20 early-careeer researchers

News | The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a call for research proposals under its Living Planet Fellowship initiative. The deadline for applications is 30 June 2014.
May 5, 2014

Global Change magazine now out

News | The latest issue of the Global Change magazine is now published. It features a full-spread infographic on deltas accompanied by a Q&A with IGBP Chair James Syvitski. You can also read about the latest news on Future Earth, coastal megacities, the progress in crystallising the Sustainable Development Goals and recent developments in land-atmosphere research.
May 5, 2014

IPBES seeks regional experts

News | The new Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is seeking experts to scope regional and sub-regional assessments and an assessment of land degradation and restoration. Deadline for applications 24 May.
April 3, 2014

New global research funding programme launched

News | The International Social Science Council has launched a new funding programme, Transformations to Sustainability, offering 30 seed-funding grants of up to €30,000 and three grants of €300,000 a year for three years to create international " Transformative Knowledge Networks ".
April 3, 2014

Geosphere-biosphere interactions in a Future Earth symposium

News | IGBP's 29th Scientific Committee meeting begins in Bangalore, India, 7 April with a symposium: Geosphere-Biosphere interactions in a Future Earth. Programme .
April 2, 2014

Arctic research proposals sought

News | A group of international science funders, the Belmont Forum, has released a call for proposals on Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability as part of its 2014 International Opportunities Fund . The forum has €13 million available for projects in the €200,000 to €1million range. Deadline 31 July 2014.
March 28, 2014

Ocean Acidification website launched

News | A new Ocean Acidification website has been launched that brings together new ocean acidification infographics, publications, background information, presentations and news for researchers, policymakers and the public.
March 20, 2014

Conference - Global Challenges: Achieving Sustainability

News | Abstract deadline for a major solutions-oriented congress is now 12 April. The programme and topic description is here .
March 20, 2014

Deadline extended for mountain global fair and workshop

News | The deadline for abstracts for the Global Fair and Workshop on Long-Term Observatories of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems has been extended to 11 April. The event takes place in Reno USA on 16-19 July 2014.
March 18, 2014

Data Assimilation in Biogeochemical Cycles autumn school

News | The International Space Science Institute’s (ISSI) Working Group on "Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation: How to Consistently Assimilate Multiple Data Streams" is organizing an Autumn School on Data Assimilation in Biogeochemical Cycles in Trieste, Italy, 20-27 September, 2014. Deadline 1 May. Apply here .
March 18, 2014

International atmospheric chemistry conference deadline extended

News | The deadline for abstract submission for the 13th IGAC conference - Changing Chemisty in a Changing World - and young scientist support have been extended to 31 March 2014.
March 12, 2014

Sybil Seitzinger to give Gordon Goodman memorial lecuture

News | On Friday 14 March, IGBP Executive Director Dr Sybil Seitzinger will give the Gordon Goodman memorial lecture on the origins of Earth system science and the development of the concept of the Anthropocene at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The lecture is FREE. Register here .
February 14, 2014

Sustainability science congress

News | A major international scientific congress focusing on global sustainability research is scheduled for 22-24 October 2014. The congress, Global challenges: achieving sustainability , will take place in Copenhagen and is targetting the science, business and policy communities. Abstract deadline 31 March.
February 14, 2014

Chemistry Climate Model Initiative Meeting

News | The second Chemistry Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) Meeting will be held in Lancaster, UK from 20-22 May 2014. Financial support deadline 28 February. Abstract deadline 14 March. Registration deadline 1 April. This event is sponsored by IGAC and SPARC .
February 6, 2014

Biodiveristy assessment: call for experts

News | The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is seeking nominations of experts to join several task forces and expert groups to contribute to the IPBES 2014 - 2018 Work Programme.
February 3, 2014

GEIA conference: Bridging Emissions Science and Policy

News | The Global Emissions InitiAtive (GEIA), co-sponsored by IGBP's atmosheric project IGAC, holds its 16th conference - Bridging Emissions Science and Policy - in Boulder Colorado, 10-11 June 2014. Abstract deadline 7 February.
February 3, 2014

Future Oceans conference - abstract deadline 5 Feburary

News | The IMBER-sponsored Future Oceans international science conference takes place in Bergen, 23-27 June, 2014. The deadline for abstracts is 5 February.
January 27, 2014

50 priorities for palaeoecology

News | An international group of palaeo experts have used a new methodology to identify 50 research priorities for palaeoecology.
January 20, 2014

Future Earth Engagement Committee call for members

News | The new ten-year research initiative, Future Earth, is seeking nominations for its inaugeral Engagment Committee. Deadline for applications 14 March 2014.
January 15, 2014

Anthropocene workshop 17-19 January

News | A workshop focusing on the underlying social systems driving the Anthropocene will take place 17-19 January in Washington DC. The invitation-only workshop, which will bring together social and natural scientists, has been organised by IGBP and the International Human Dimensions Programme.
January 14, 2014

Climate chemistry modelling workshop

News | The second Chemistry Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) Meeting will be held in Lancaster, UK from 20-22 May 2014.
January 13, 2014

Major synthesis of ocean-atmosphere exchanges published

News | A new book ‘Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions of Gases and Particles’ has been published by IGBP's Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study project and the EU COST programme.
December 16, 2013

Vacancy: director of disaster risk programme

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December 16, 2013

IGAC seeks new committee members

News | The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project is looking for nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee members. If you wish to submit a nomination send the name and CV of the individual to IGAC Executive Officer Megan Melamed, megan@igacproject.org , by 15 January 2014. To view current committee members see here .
December 12, 2013

Sybil Seitzinger to deliver AGU 2013 Union Agency lecture

News | IGBP Executive Director Sybil Seitzinger will deliver the AGU2013 Fall Meeting Union Agency Lecture today. See website for more details.
November 19, 2013

Annual global carbon emissions set to reach record 36 billion tonnes in 2013

News | Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes - according to new figures from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme's Global Carbon Project.
November 14, 2013

Ocean Acidification
summary for policymakers released

News | Over the past two decades, researchers have shown that ocean acidification is increasing as humans have added more carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. A panel of scientists reports a summary of outcomes, in which they connect the impacts on ecosystems and socio-economic consequences with levels of confidence that have implications for policy.
November 1, 2013

Carlos Nobre appointed to major UN scientific advisory board

News | UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced his first Scientific Advisory Board. Former IGBP chair Carlos Nobre is one of twenty-six scientists selected. The new board will provide advice on science, technology and innovation for sustainable development and report directly to the Secretary General. UNESCO will host the secretariat.
October 30, 2013

Qin Dahe awarded major environment prize

News | Dr Qin Dahe, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group I, has been awarded the presigious Volvo Environment Prize. The Chinese glaciologist and climate scientist is a member of the Future Earth scientific committee and former member of the IGBP Scientific Committee (2007-2012).
October 22, 2013

Future Earth engagement committee announced

News | UK scientist Bob Watson will head up the interim engagement committee for Future Earth. The committee will provide strategic guidance to ensure Future Earth bridges the gap between science and society.
October 21, 2013

Latest issue of Global Change magazine

News | The latest issue of Global Change magazine is now available online on the IGBP website. Get a global view of regional temperature histories as the global climate has changed over the last 2000 years, in the cover feature from the PAGES 2k Consortium. The landmark temperature reconstruction also is visualised in a two-page spread that highlights individual continental shifts over time.
October 15, 2013

Call for Global Land Project science committee nominations

News | GLP announces a call for nominations for members of the GLP Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). The closing date for nominations is 20 November, 2013.
October 8, 2013

Links between land-use and climate explored in new initiative

News | On 25-26 September three IGBP projects met at a workshop in Amsterdam to start a new initiative "Interactions among Mangaged Ecosystems, Climate and Societies (IMECS).
October 8, 2013

Call to host major international coastal zone project

News | The call is now open for intitutions to host a major coasts initiative, the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project. Deadline for expressions of interst: 15 November 2013. More .
September 30, 2013

Climate change public forum photos

News | Here are the photos from our public forum on 28 September to discuss the new IPCC climate report.
September 27, 2013

Climate event livestream

News | Public event 28 September 1-3pm (CET) for the launch of the new climate report. Co-chairs from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group I will take questions. Special guest speaker Hans Rosling. Livestream . @climateSTHLM
September 24, 2013

2 positions available at IGBP's Global Land Project office in Brazil

News | Two positions are now available within the GLP IPO at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in São José dos Campos, Brazil, namely the GLP IPO Executive Officer and the GLP IPO Project Officer.
September 20, 2013

Limits to (phytoplankton) growth

News | The journal Nature Geoscience has published "Marine Cycles in Flux" a significant review of marine biogeochemical cycles featuring the results of an IGBP fast-track initiative.
September 20, 2013

Stockholm Seminar - the role of narrative in shaping human-environment interactions

News | On 23 September, the Global Carbon Project's Mike Raupach will give a Stockholm Seminar on "Resilience and vulnerability in the coupled carbon-climate-human system. The lecture will cover the role of narratives in guiding human behaviour. More...
September 13, 2013

Writing workshop for scientists from least developed nations - summary now online

News | IGBP and the Asia Pacific Network brought journal editors together with scientists from least developed countries for a workshop on how to write for peer-reviewed journals. The workshop, led by IGBP Officer Pauline Dube, was part of IGBP's synthesis on least developed countries. A summary of the workshop is available here .
August 28, 2013

Climate change public event for IPCC launch

News | On 28 September, IGBP and partners will hold a major public event for the launch of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Working Group I Summary for Policymakers, Climate Change 2013: the Physical Science Basis . This is the first event at which IPCC Working Group I Co-chairs present the findings of the newly-approved report to the general public. The event will be streamed live online.
August 7, 2013

Linking Sustainable Development Goals to the environment

News | The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has published a white paper analysing how the environment may be embedded within the Sustainable Development Goals. IGBP's Executive Director Professor Sybil Seitzinger participated in the roundtable discussions leading to this publication. UNEP website Full report: Embedding the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals
August 7, 2013

Register for next IPBES plenary

News | The second plenary session of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) will be held 9-14 December in Antalya, Turkey. Deadline for registration 19 Auguest 2013. More information: http://ipbes.net/plenary/registration-ipbes-2.htmlThe results of the recent IPBES open consultation is now available: http://ipbes.net/intersessional-process/current-review-comments.html
July 30, 2013

Q&A with new Future Earth chair

News | The Future Earth blog has published a new Q and A with chair, Mark Stafford Smith, former vice-chair of IGBP.
July 30, 2013

Remembering Bertha Becker

News | All at IGBP were saddened to learn of the death of Bertha Koifmann Becker who passed away recently. Bertha was a highly respected geographer with innumerable publications in the field of Political Geography of the Amazon and Brazil. She was also a valued member of the Future Earth Transition Team. Her passing is a great loss to the scientific community. More .
July 9, 2013

Call now out to host Future Earth secretariat

News | The call is now live for bids to host a permanent secretariat for Future Earth, the ambitious new 10-year international research programme on global sustainability. The first deadline in the three-step process for expressions of interest is 23 September. More.
July 5, 2013

International biodiversity assessment consultation launched

News | A consultation is now open for the draft work programme of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Deadline 28 July.
July 3, 2013

Future Oceans international conference call for abstracts

News | Call for abstracts now open for marine project IMBER's 2014 open science conference. Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2014.
July 1, 2013

Future Earth interim director announced

News | Professor Frans Berkhout will be the Interim Director of Future Earth. The announcement was made today by the International Council for Science (ICSU), on behalf of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability.
June 27, 2013

Ocean-atmosphere project newsletter published

News | The Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study has published its latest newsletter.
June 26, 2013

Asia Pacific Network call for proposals

News | The Asia Pacific Network (APN) is inviting proposals under two separate programmes for funding in 2014. APN can provide a limited amount of financial support for research and capacity development activities that fall within its areas of interest. See APN website for further details.
June 26, 2013

2014 Climate Adaptation Futures conference announced

News | The 3rd Climate Adaptation Futures Conference will take place in Fortaleza, Brazil in 2014 and will be co-hosted by PROVIA and the Earth System Science Center of the National Institute for Space Studies (CCST-INPE). The conference will focus on adaptation to climate variability and change, with some emphasis on arid and semi-arid lands.
June 18, 2013

Future Earth science committee announced

News | The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC), on behalf of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability has announced the members of the first science committee for Future Earth, a new 10-year research programme on global sustainability.The chair of the new committee is former IGBP vice-chair Mark Stafford Smith, Science Director of CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship in Canberra, Australia. Vice chairs are Melissa Leach, Director of the STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre in the UK and Belinda Reyers, a Chief Scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
June 12, 2013

Career development workshop for young polar scientists announced

News | The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is organizing a 1-day science and career development workshop before the start of the Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly (DACA-13), in Davos Switzerland July 7, 2013. Sign up here.
May 17, 2013

Seventh International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG7) call for papers

News | A major international symposium on "Innovations for a Sustainable Future", 5-7 November, 2014.
May 14, 2013

Global Land Project major conference call for abstracts

News | The call for abstracts for the Land Transformations conference, Berlin 19-21 March 2014, is now open. Deadline for submissions, 30 June 2013.
April 30, 2013

Latest Global Change issue available online

News | The cover story in this issue explores the phenomenon of land grabs by taking a closer look at the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. Also featured are articles on resilience in the face of sea-level rise, air pollution in large urban agglomerations and communication between various research communities.Download articles here.
April 24, 2013

North American Future Earth consultation announced

News | NASA's Jack Kaye will chair the first webinar to discuss the new Future Earth initiative with North American academics. The consultation, on 2 May, will pave the way for North American participation in Future Earth and is intended to provide inputs to the governing bodies of Future Earth.
April 24, 2013

Blue skies: a homage to fundamental research

News | From the ozone hole to acid rain, in the last 40 years the sky really was the limit for major scientific breakthroughs in atmospheric research.
April 10, 2013

Water in the Anthropocene:
Challenges for Science and Governance

News | This conference, to be held in Bonn, Germany on 21-24 May 2013, is organized by the Global Water System Project and its International Project Office based in Bonn, Germany.
April 10, 2013

“German National Committee Future Earth” established

News | German academics have formed a national committee for Future Earth, launched by national funding agencies in the country. The “German Committee Future Earth” succeeds the German National Committee on Global Change Research.
April 3, 2013

SOLAS launches mid-term strategy

News | The IGBP-sponsored Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study has published its mid-term strategy outlining "evolving research directions" in the journal Environmental Chemistry.
March 22, 2013

Sustainable development goals for people and planet

News | In the wake of last week’s meetings at the UN on the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a group of international scientists have published a call in the journal Nature (21 March 2013) arguing for a set of six SDGs that link poverty eradication to protection of Earth’s life support. The researchers suggest that in the face of increasing pressure on the planet’s ability to support life, adherence to out-dated definitions of sustainable development threaten to reverse progress made in developing countries over past decades.
March 15, 2013

Major land-atmosphere conference call for proposals

News | 4th iLEAPS Science Conference - Terrestrial ecosystems, atmosphere, and people in the Earth system,12-16 May 2014 in Nanjing, China.
March 6, 2013

Climate panel seeks reviewers

News | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is seeking expert reviewers for Working Groups two and three of the Fifth Assessment Report. The Working Group 2 second order draft review runs 28 March - 24 May. The Working Group 3 second order draft review runs 25 February - 22 April.
March 4, 2013

International workshop: changing chemistry in a changing climate: monsoon

News | An international workshop to be held in India (Pune 1-3 May 2013) will discuss latest research in atmospheric chemistry, the Asian Monsoon, climate change and health impacts of air pollution. The workshop includes talks by eminent keynote speakers, oral presentations by selected young researchers and poster sessions along with interaction between expert speakers and budding scientists.
January 22, 2013

Call for nominations for Future Earth Science Committee

News | The ten-year Future Earth initiative is appointing a scientific committee comprised of academics across the natural and social sciences. The closing date for nominations is 22 February 2013.
January 9, 2013

A region-by-region temperature history of the Common Era

News | Seminar with Thorsten Kiefer, Executive Director of IGBP Past Global Changes project
December 21, 2012

VACANCY: Future Earth interim director

News | Future Earth is looking for an Interim Director. If you think you have what it takes to establish a major international research programme on Earth system research for global sustainability, apply by February 15th. For more information about this post, see the ICSU website:
December 20, 2012

Earth System Science Partnership begins transition to Future Earth

News | On 31 December 2012, the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) will close as the global-change programmes, including IGBP, begin the transition to Future Earth.
December 20, 2012

2012: A year in review

News | From Planet Under Pressure to Rio+20 and Future Earth, 2012 has been an eventful year. Here are some of the highlights and key events.
December 12, 2012

Global emissions setting course for 5°C warming by 2100

News | In its annual analysis of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) finds that unprecedented global mitigation is required to avoid dangerous climate change.
December 5, 2012

International young scientists networking conference on integrated science

News | Several international sceintific organisations have come together to organise a networking conference in April 2013 in Villa Vigoni at Lake Como in Italy. Young scientists working on integrated science on food systems are invited to submit proposals. Applications close December 14.
December 4, 2012

Future Earth Town Hall at the 2012 AGU Fall meeting

News | Future Earth will be the topic of discussion at an interactive Town Hall event at the AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, 3-7 December 2012). The event will be held on 6 December, 12:30 to 13:30 at Moscone West (2005). More information: http://www.icsu.org/future-earth/whats-new/events/agu-town-hall
November 27, 2012

Ticking time bombs in the Earth system - conference

News | The Second Australian Earth System Outlook Conference, "Ticking time bombs in the Earth system", will explore a small selection of globally significant “ticking time bombs” which pose risks of unmanageable undesirable change unless anticipatory actions are taken that fall well outside the corrective capacity of the invisible hand of economic market forces.
November 15, 2012

2 new academic positions available in Stockholm

News | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced two new academic positions (Academy Researchers). The first vacancy is for a scholar with a documented background in economics. The second is for a scholar with a documented background in research on social-ecological interactions. The positions will be part of the Family Erling Persson’s Academy Program on The Ecological Economics of Global Change, lead by Professor Carl Folke. DEADLINE 30 November. More information.
November 15, 2012

MDG Post 2015: call for papers on environmental sustainability

News | The Millennium Development Goals, which end in 2015, look set to morph into Sustainable Development Goals, following the UN's Rio+20 Summit in June. A consultation has been announced to contribute to the goals for a more environmentally sustainable future. Call for papers.
November 15, 2012

IGBP server down 16-17 November

News | IGBP's server will be temporarily unavailable on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November for essential maintenance. In this time staff will have no access to emails and response times to requests may be slower than usual. Service will be resumed by Monday 19th. We thank you in advance for your patience.
October 26, 2012

Future Earth proposes 3 research themes at final meeting

News | The team responsible for the initial design of the new Future Earth initiative met in Paris on 20-21 September to agree on the broad outlines of recommendations for the research framework, governance, stakeholder engagement and communications strategy. In the wake of Rio+20, the Team also agreed on the importance of strategically positioning Future Earth in the science-policy landscape, as a key science provider for the definition of Sustainable Development Goals.
October 18, 2012

Living Planet Symposium announced

News | The European Space Agency is hosting a fourth Living Planet Symposium in Edinburgh, UK, from 9 - 13 September 2013. Deadline for submissions 15 February.
October 17, 2012

Vacancy: Global Carbon Project Executive Director

News | The Global Carbon Project (GCP) is seeking a highly motivated and independent person as ExecutiveDirector of International Project Office (IPO) in Tsukuba, Japan, located at the Center for Global Environmental Research of the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). Deadline for applications: 19 November 2012. More information, download job description.
October 17, 2012

IPCC call for expert reviewers

News | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is inviting experts to participate as Expert Reviewers in the Working Group One Assessment Report 5 (Climate Change the Physical Basis) to be published in 2013. The draft document will be available for review until 30 November. Register here.
October 16, 2012

Water in the Anthropocene conference: call for abstracts

News | The deadline for abstract submission for the international conference Water in the Anthropocene, sponsored by the Global Water System Project is 31 October 2012 . The focus of the conference is the global dimensions of water system changes due to anthropogenic as well as natural influences. The conference will be held in Bonn, Germany, 21-23 May 2013. Click here for the conference webpage.
October 16, 2012

Megacities' impacts on climate and air pollution published

News | Worldwide, there are now 23 cities with populations in excess of 10 million - known as megacities. With this number set to increase in the coming decades, particularly in developing countries, a new report analyses the impact of both megacities and rapid urbanisation on climate and air quality.
October 16, 2012

New website for Global Land Project

News | The Global Land Project (GLP), co-sponsored by IGBP and the International Human Dimensions Programme, has relaunched its website. The new website features more news and events. You can also now follow GLP on Facebook.
October 8, 2012

Latest issue of Global Change now online

News | This issue highlights various aspects of Arctic climate change, including sea ice and methane. We also look at a new tool for analysing complex global challenges, the path ahead for the Earth-system science community and the aftermath of Rio+20.
October 1, 2012

Vacancy, Deputy Director, Social Sciences

News | The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) is seeking a deputy director, social sciences, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Deadline for applications: 22 October 2012.
September 26, 2012

Natural labs help scientists study ocean acidification

News | Scientists are using “natural laboratories” -- seafloor vents that release millions of streams of small bubbles of carbon dioxide - to study how ocean acidification may affect the future of coral reefs and other marine ecosystems as global carbon dioxide emissions rise.
September 26, 2012

International conference focuses on challenges of ocean chemistry changes

News | Over 500 scientists from 37 countries have descended on Monterey, Calif., Sept. 24-27, to present the latest science related to ocean acidification, the result of the oceans absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
September 23, 2012

Livestream: Ocean in a High CO2 World Symposium

News | Monterey, California, 24-27 September 2012.
September 7, 2012

2011 IGBP Annual Report published

News | Highlights from the 2011 IGBP annual report include the global carbon budget, the behaviour of complex cloud-aerosol-precipitation systems, past ice-sheet dynamics and sea-level changes, the Planet Under Pressure conference and national-committee activities.
September 3, 2012

Earth Institute director Jeffrey Sachs seminar streamed live

News | On 4 September, economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York will give a seminar in Stockholm on the Sustainable Development Goals. The seminar, part of the Stockholm Seminar series sponsored by IGBP, will be streamed live.
July 23, 2012

Deadline to submit an abstract for IMBER IMBIZO lll has been extended until 12 August 2012!

News | The future of marine biogeochemistry, ecosystems and societies.Multi-dimensional approaches to the challenges of global change in continental margins and open ocean systems Only 120 participants will be accepted for this interdisciplinary symposium.Register and submit an abstract for one of the following three workshops:Biogeochemistry-ecosystem interactions on changing continental marginsCo-conveners:Kay-Christian Emeis, Lisa Levin, Kon-Kee Liu, Wajih Naqvi, Mike RomanKeynote speakers:Denise Breitburg (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)Curtis Deutsch (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, UCLA) The impact of anthropogenic perturbations on open ocean carbon sequestration via the dissolved and particulate phases of the biological carbon pumpCo-conveners:Nianzhi Jiao, Farooq Azam, Carol Robinson, Helmuth ThomasKeynote speaker:Farooq Azam (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Understanding and forecasting human-ocean-human interactions, drivers and pressures, with respect to global changeCo-conveners:Alida Bundy, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Liana McManus, Sarah Cooley, Marie Badjeck, Bernhard GlaeserKeynote speaker:John Kurien (retired - Centre for Development Studies)
July 19, 2012

Global Change and the Earth System now available to download

News | For those scouring Earth for evidence we have entered a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – look no further than between the covers of IGBP’s iconic first synthesis, Global Change and the Earth System: a Planet under Pressure (Steffen et al. 2004). For the first time, this meticulous and detailed tome is available to download freely.
July 9, 2012

State of the planet film opens Rio+20 conference

News | The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) opened with a visually spectacular animated film on the state of the planet. The film, which followed the opening remarks by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, encapsulates 20 years of IGBP research and was produced by IGBP and Globaïa. It is part of the website, Anthropocene.info, which is co-sponsored by IGBP and several partners.
June 19, 2012

Anthropocene.info launched

News | The first educational website about the Anthropocene has been launched. The beta version of the site, Welcome to the Anthropocence, went live during the recent Planet Under Pressure conference in London. The site, linked directly to Google Earth and containing new data visualizations, is designed to provide a dazzling overview of the colossal scale of humanity's footprint across the planet.
June 15, 2012

Economics Laureate Elinor Ostrom dies at 78

News | Economics Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom (78) has died (12 June) after a short battle with cancer. Ostrom’s life-long research on managing common resources challenged established wisdom about the so-called “tragedy of the commons”, and led to her Nobel award in 2009. She was the first woman to receive the economics honour.
May 2, 2012

U.S. Global Change Research Program publishes ten-year strategy

News | The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has released the new National Global Change Research Plan 2012-2021: A Strategic Plan for the U. S. Global Change Research Program.
April 11, 2012

20 million Euros for international research

News | An international group of funding agencies has announced an "International Opportunities Fund" worth 20 million Euros for international research projects focusing on coastal vulnerability and freshwater security.
March 8, 2012

Oceans Acidifying Faster Today Than in Past 300 Million Years

News | The oceans may be acidifying faster today than they did in the last 300 million years, according to researchers in the journal Science. The results are based on a workshop from IGBP's Past Global Changes programme.
March 2, 2012

IMBER seeks Executive Officer/Senior Scientist

News | The Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) is seeking an Executive Officer (EO)/Senior Scientist. The position is temporary for 3 years with possible reappointment for 2 more years. Deadline for applications: 11 March 2012
February 7, 2012

Don't put all eggs in one (geoengineered) basket

News | Should research efforts focus on single large-scale geoengineering schemes? Or instead, should efforts go on understanding how a combination of smaller geoengineering schemes could mitigate warming? Mark Stafford Smith and Lynn Russell argue the latter in Carbon Management today.
November 24, 2011

Conference deadline extends

News | The Planet Under Pressure management team is extending the oral presenters registration deadline to Friday 9th December and poster author registration deadline to the 20th January 2012. This is in response to feedback from some delegates who require more time to identify funding opportunities.
November 23, 2011

Survey will identify adaptation research needs

News | PROVIA, a new research programme on vulnerability, impacts and adaptation has released a survey as part of an international review of research needs.
November 16, 2011

Is iconic UN index rewarding polluters?

News | Sustainability remains suspiciously absent from the United Nations Human Development Index. Chuluun Togtokh, vice chair of the Mongolian IGBP Global Change National Committee argues in the journal Nature that this must stop.
October 25, 2011

International climate conference opens

News | The director of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Ghassem Asrar, gave a press briefing to launch the WCRP Open Science Conference.
October 12, 2011

Asia-Pacific climate report published for COP17

News | The Asia Pacific Netwrok (APN) has published a new synthesis report — Climate in Asia and the Pacific: A Synthesis of APN Activities — to contribute to policy development relating to climate vulnerability and impacts, including adaptation and mitigation.
October 4, 2011

Single-celled plankton reveal past climates

News | How do scientist reconstruct past climate conditions on Earth? One way of doing this is by culturing living planktonic Foraminifera and analyzing their shell composition under present day conditions in the world oceans. A new short film on the importance of plankton for climate research has just been released. Watch it here.
September 23, 2011

Planet Under Pressure attracts 3567 abstracts

News | Abstracts were submitted by 6831 authors. 40% of abstracts (2738 were submitted from developing countries. The reach of the conference is truly global - 139 countries are represented (65% are developing countries).
September 1, 2011

Earth stewardship call for abstracts

News | The deadline for abstracts for the IGBP special session Earth stewardship: Strategies and solutions for a rapidly changing planet at the Planet Under Pressure conference is 16 September.
August 1, 2011

Planet Under Pressure: abstract submission open

News | Deadline: 16 September 2011
July 15, 2011

Earth observation carbon strategy launched

News | Over 130 governments and leading international organizations are working to establish a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) by the year 2015. The Global Earth Observation (GEO) Carbon Community of Practice is developing a plan for implementing an Integrated Global Carbon Observation System. The Earth Observation Carbon Strategy published recently outlines the vision and progress to date towards such a system.
July 13, 2011

Forests absorb one third our fossil fuel emissions

News | The world's established forests remove 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere – equivalent to one third of current annual fossil fuel emissions – according to new research from the Global Carbon Project published in the journal Science.
July 12, 2011

Third Symposium on
the Ocean in a High-CO2 World

News | The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO announce the "Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World", 24-27 September 2012, Monterey, California, USA.
July 5, 2011

Global plant database published

News | The world's largest database on plants' functional properties, or traits, has been published.
July 1, 2011

Storm-generation research could improve rainfall prediction in West Africa

News | A new study of how storms are generated could improve rainfall prediction in dry regions of Africa, where drought and short growing seasons are common.Scientists from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (co-sponsored by IGBP) used satellite observations of the Sahel region of West Africa to demonstrate that brief changes in soil moisture can affect storm generation. The results are published online in Nature Geoscience.
July 1, 2011

IGBP seeks Science-policy project manager

News | The International Geosphere‐Biosphere Programme is seeking an experienced Science-policy project manager for a one-year contract.
June 21, 2011

Stockholm hosts Planetary Stewardship workshop

News | IGBP hosts an international workshop on Planetary Stewardship: solutions for responsible development at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, (13-15 June).
June 21, 2011

The Economist: Welcome to the Anthropocene

News | "Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it, too," says the Economist.
June 21, 2011

BBC News: Anthropocene. Have humans created a new geological age?

News | IGBP Chair elect, James Syvitski and former IGBP director Will Steffen took part in a one-day conference in London (11 May) to discuss whether planet Earth has now entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
June 21, 2011

201o IGBP Annual Report Published

News | The 2010 IGBP annual report is now available. It highlights, among other things, a recently constructed record of South American palaeoclimate, forest and grassland response to European heat waves, a review on marine food webs, and sources of Arctic pollutants.
April 20, 2011

Seitzinger elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

News | IGBP Executive Director Sybil Seitzinger was elected recently as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which was founded in 1780.
April 18, 2011

State of the Arctic coast report published

News | A new report published today brings together recent research on Arctic coasts.
April 15, 2011

IGBP seeks Science Policy Officer

News | The International Geosphere‐Biosphere Programme is seeking an experienced Science Policy Officer for a one-year contract.
April 14, 2011

Nitrogen pollution costs Europe up to
320 billion euros annually

News | A new report published this week states that excess nitrogen in the environment costs the European Union between euro70 billion and euro320 billion per year.
April 12, 2011

Coastal Zone international conference

News | Abstract deadline 1 May 2011
April 12, 2011

ESA-SOLAS-EGU Conference on Earth Observation for Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Science

News | Abstract deadline 29 April 2011
April 12, 2011

Young LOICZ Forum: submission deadline extended to 1 June 2011

News | Taking place 8-15 September, 2011, in Yantai, China, the Young LOICZ Forum (YLF) is a combination of conference sessions and targeted activities for early-career scientists and young coastal managers, including training workshops and practical exercises.
April 11, 2011

World Climate Research Programme's 2011 conference

News | Deadline for abstracts: 30 April
March 11, 2011

Land-atmosphere science conference abstract deadline 15 April 2011

News | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Conference date: 18-23 September 2011,
March 10, 2011

Earth Summit Prep Meeting Side Event, New York: Planetary Boundaries and the Urgent Need for Societal Transformations

News | 8 March 2011
March 10, 2011

Planetary boundaries event in New York - live webcast

News | 8 March 2011
February 3, 2011

Planet Under Pressure
2012 International Conference

News | Call for sessions now open. Deadline 18 March 2011
January 31, 2011

Ocean fertilization summary for policymakers published

News | Geoengineering schemes involving ocean fertilization to affect climate have a low chance of success, according to the first summary for policymakers on the issue.
January 28, 2011

Ecosystem impacts of geoengineering

News | IGBP is holding a symposium on the ecosystem impacts of geoengineering on 31 January, 8:30am-8:30pm, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California. The symposium can be watched live online.
January 14, 2011

Global phosphorus network launched

News | We cannot produce food without phosphorus. Crop yields must double by 2050 to feed 9 billion people while the world's main source of phosphorus is becoming increasingly scarce.
December 20, 2010

Call for papers - sixth symposium on
non-CO2 greenhouse gases

News | The symposium will be held in Amsterdam in The Netherlands and will address both the role of non-CO2 greenhouse gases and aerosol in human-induced climate forcing and options for reduction in industry and society.
December 3, 2010

Planet Under Pressure 2012 website now live

News | The website is now live for the 2012 international science conference Planet Under Pressure: new knowledge towards solutions.
December 3, 2010

IGBP's director discusses governance and the Earth system in Nature

News | In this week's Nature, IGBP director Sybil Seitzinger discusses the Planet Under Pressure conference in 2012, the need for politicians to view Earth as a complex system and the idea of a planetary ecologist.
October 7, 2010

IGBP's updated vision now available

News | IGBP's sponsor the International Council for Science (ICSU) is developing an ambitious ten-year global sustainability research programme. Driving this programme are five grand challenges. IGBP is updating its vision in line with these new priorities.

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