The World Climate Research Programme, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, the International Human Dimensions Programme, and DIVERSITAS: An International Programme of Biodiversity Science, will form part of an integrated strategy on researching environmental change that will include social sciences, being called an “unprecedented mobilisation” of science to help cope with rapid global change.
The initiative will be formally launched in two stages — first at the Planet Under Pressure conference in the United Kingdom (26–29 March 2012), and then at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil (4–6 June 2012).
A transition team will put together an implementation plan by November 2012.
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