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

Should research efforts focus on single large-scale geoengineering schemes? Or...

Dec 16, 2011

Global emissions rebound to record levels after global financial crisis

Global carbon dioxide emissions increased by a record 5.9 per cent in 2010...

Nov 24, 2011

Conference deadline extends

The Planet Under Pressure management team is extending the oral presenters...

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FEATURES

Tracking groundwater depletion

As water demand rises rapidly, some regions are withdrawing groundwater faster...

Scientists who published the famous “hockey stick” graph experienced sustained attacks soon after the figure was incorporated in the 2001 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Now one of those scientists, Ray Bradley, has written a very personal account of his experience. He spoke to Owen Gaffney about his new book.

Learning from the past

When it comes to managing the environment, we rarely look beyond the past few years to inform decisions. John Dearing says this needs to change.

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MULTIMEDIA

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...

Single-celled plankton reveal past climates

How do scientists reconstruct past climate conditions on Earth? One way of doing this is by culturing...

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Global-change networks

IGBP projects and contacts

IGBP partners

Below is a list of some of the key organizations in global change and global sustainability research and policy

ICSU sponsored International Global Environmental Change Programmes
DIVERSITAS - an International Programme of Biodiversiry Science
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
International Human Dimensions Programme of Global Environmental Change
World Climate Research Programme
Earth System Science Partnership
Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society

International global-change networks
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis
Asia Pacific Network
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
European Science Foundation RESCUE programme
Global Ministerial Environment Forum
Integrated Global Observing Strategy
Inter America Institute for Global Change Research
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution
International Council for Science (ICSU)
International Nitrogen Initiative (INI)
Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)
Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative
Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Earth Observation agencies and networks

National Institute for Space Research (INPE)	Brazil
Chinese National Space Administration	China
Indian Space Research Organisation	India
European Space Agency	International
Global Climate Observing System	International
Global Ocean Observing System	International
Global Terrestrial Observing System	International
Group on Earth Observations	International
Japanese Aerosace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
National Centre for Earth Observation	UK
NASA	US

National global-change programmes and institutes

ANU Climate Change Institute	Australia
Global Change Institute	Australia
Earth System Science Center, INPE	Brazil
The Centre for Global Change Science	Canada
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research	Germany
Pacific Institute	International
International Programme on the State of the Ocean	International
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition	International
Environmental Change Institute	Ireland
Research Institute for Global Change	Japan
International Global Change Institute	New Zealand
Africa Centre for Climate and Earth System Science	South Africa
Albaeco	Sweden
Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Science	Sweden
Living with Environmental Change Programme	UK
Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System	UK
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change research	UK
Environmental Change Institute	UK
US Global Change Research Programme	US
MIT joint programme on the science and policy of global change	US
Duke University Center on Global Change	US
Michigan University Centre for Global Change and Earth Observations	US
Global Change education programme	US
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	US
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	US
National Centre for Atmospheric Research	US
Global Environmental Governance Project	US
World Resources Institute	US
Earth Institute, Columbia University	US

Sustainability institutes and departments

Alliance for global sustainability	International
Stockholm Resilience Centre	Sweden
Stockholm Environment Institute	Sweden
McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies	US
Institute for Sustainable Futures	US

Sustainable development and other networks

Environment for Development Initiative	International
International Institute for Environment and Development	International
Stakeholder Forum	International
UN development programme	International
Food and Agriculture Organization	International
Centre for Applied Biosciences International (CABI)	International
African Network for Environmental Sustainability	International
Swedish International Development Agency	Sweden
Department for International Development (UK)	UK
USAID	US