May 2, 2012
U.S. Global Change Research Program publishes ten-year strategy
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has released the new National...
Apr 11, 2012
An international group of funding agencies has announced an "International...
Mar 28, 2012
To surmount sustainability hurdles societies need a new yardstick of national...
20 million Euros for international research
An international group of funding agencies has announced an "International...
Mar 28, 2012
Inclusive Wealth Report unveiled
To surmount sustainability hurdles societies need a new yardstick of national...
Building our Future
Human infrastructure both contributes to and is affected by global change. The...
Risky Business
A sequence of devastating earthquakes and a large number of weather-related catastrophes made 2011 the most expensive year ever for natural catastrophe losses for insurance companies. Owen Gaffney spoke to the world’s largest reinsurance company Munich Re’s Head of Geo Risks Research, Peter Höppe.
Addicted to resources
Industrialisation is consuming natural resources at rates that are demonstrably unsustainable in the long term, points out Helmut Haberl.
"Welcome to the Anthropocene" film and still images
A visually spectacular animated film, Welcome to the Anthropocene, has been released on the eve of...
The promise and perils of creating markets to pay for public goods
Some payment mechanisms to support ecosystem services can be environmentally harmful, warn experts in...
IGBP research presented to Dalai Lama
Global-change researcher Diana Liverman presented IGBP's Great Acceleration graphs to the Dalai Lama...
National Committees
IGBP's network of national committees stretch throughout Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania. The network brings together scientists from the developing world with scientists in the developed world.
Facts
- 70 National Committees
- European Alliance of national committees
- African alliance of national committees (AFRICANESS)
Links:
European Alliance
Downloads:
IGBP Vision
(pdf, 210 kB)
IGBP Constitution (pdf, 96 kB)
IGBP has a powerful network of 70 national committees covering the developing and the developed world. Some of these national committees represent IGBP, others are global-change national committees representing IGBP and other international global-change programmes.
National committees:
- help national coordination of relevant studies
- create links between national and international global-change research
- assist funding strategies to support IGBP's research
- connect developing-world scientists with researchers in the developed world
For general information on National Committees
email: comms@igbp.kva.se
email: comms@igbp.kva.se
For more contact information on National Committees
email: admin@igbp.kva.se
Names of committee Chairs/Contacts can be found here.
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May 23, 2012
May 24 - May 24, 2012
Symposium in conjunction with the 27th IGBP SC Meeting, Bergen, Norway
27th IGBP Scientific Committee Meeting
May 24 - May 24, 2012
"Norwegian science highlights: Bio-Geo-Chemical Cycles and sustainable pathways in the Ocean, Atmosphere and Land"
Symposium in conjunction with the 27th IGBP SC Meeting, Bergen, Norway
Hosted by the Research Council of Norway and supported by Bjerknes Centre and the University of Bergen
Global Change Magazine No. 78
In this issue, we take a look at the Anthropocene, humanity's epoch. We also examine urban expansion, consumption of resources, natural catastrophes' effects on economics and how to better build our...
Global Change Magazine No. 77
In this issue you can debate the influence of climate on history, familiarise yourselves with the International Nitrogen Initiative, and find out how publishing the "hockey stick" graph changed life...
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