The Competition between Food, Bioenergy, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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The Competition between Food, Bioenergy,
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

• Convenors
• Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP),
• German National Global Change Committee (NKGCF)
• the International Human Dimensions of Global
  Environmental Change Programme (IHDP).

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Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP)
3 Core Projects
9 Core Projects

• Changes that are occurring to the Earth System
• Implications of these changes for global
  sustainability

6 Core Projects
5 Core Projects
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ESSP Vision

• To address complex Earth System questions that
  are important to society and that require
  problem-solving skills from a range of natural
  and social sciences.
• ESSP Scientific Committee, March 2009

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Earth System Science Partnership Towards
transdisciplinary integrative science
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Science Update to UNFCCC-SBSTA

• GEC research community and the IPCC presented to
  the Parties at the United Nations Framework
  Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -
  Subsidiary Bodies for Scientific and
  Technological Advice (SBSTA) in Bonn on 5 June.
• Goal to present emerging science and enhance
  dialogue between the research community and the
  Parties.

This will be an ongoing activity next event 3rd
June 2009
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A new GEC Journal

• New GEC journal with review and synthesis papers
• Possibilities to publish science plans
• Themes
• Terrestrials systems (Food systems, Biodiversity,
  and Ecosystem services)
• Aquatic systems (covering Marine and Fresh water,
  Fisheries, Currents, etc.)
• Climate systems (covering climate change, climate
  risk management)
• Energy systems (covering Renewable energy, Energy
  efficiency, Bioenergy)
• Carbon and Nitrogen cycles
• Human systems (Settlements and habitat, covering
  Cities, Urbanization, Transport)
• Trying to get outreach and educational material
  available

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Bioenergy and Earth Sustainability

• Goal identify major opportunities
• and constraints for bioenergy in the
• context of earth system sustainability.

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Now, ESSP is more connected through the CGIAR
collaboration
We are looking forward to effectively connect
with researchers from the International
Agricultural Research Institutes (CGIAR).
Together well implement the 10-years CC
Challenge Programme on Climate Change and
Agriculture with integrated scenarios to assess
food systems and food security
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ESSP integrative science to support decision
making

• We will continue to do innovative and integrative
  earth system science to increase understanding
  and facilitate sustainable management and create
  the necessary capacity to advance and apply
  science
• We will contribute to different policy relevant
  Assessments
• Well improve capacity building in different
  regions (START)
• We will become more strongly involved with the
  urgently needed science-policy dialogue with
  policy makers, the private sectors and public
  NGOs

IGBP illustration
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ESSP developing an integrated Earth system
science approach
Courtesy of J. Rockström Resilience Allience
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Programme sessionChairs Gernot Klepper Rik
Leemans

• Gernot Klepper (Kiel Institute for the World
  Economy, Germany chair NKGCF)
• Introduction and the Bioenergy perspective
• Karen Seto (School of Forestry and Environmental
  Studies, Yale University, USA Co-Chair, IHDPs
  Urbanization and Global Environmental Change
  Project)
• Land-use change at the peri-urban fringe Can
  urbanisation save land for nature?
• Norbert Juergens (University of Hamburg, Germany)
• Biodiversity
• Keith Weibe (Comparative Agriculture and
  Development Service, FAO, Italy)
• Access to Food and Access to Land
• Rik Leemans (Environmental Systems Analysis,
  Wageningen University, The Netherlands Chair
  ESSP)
• Conclusions