The Future Earth initiative also aims to strengthen partnerships with policy-makers to consider post-Rio solutions.
The "Future Earth" is an example of a link between the scientific community, government, enterprises and society.
The Future Earth project in which UNESCO is a partner will be launched at a side event during the Forum.
Diana Liverman, co-Director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona and co-Chair of the Future Earth design team.
The Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development will also provide an opportunity to launch the Future Earth initiative on 14 June.
The launching of the 10-year Future Earth initiative focusing on global sustainability solutions is an example of their commitment and that of their funders.
Registration is now open for the Mountains of Our Future Earth conference due to take place at the University of the Highlands and Islands from 4 to 8 October.
The Future Earth international research initiative, which aims to mobilize thousands of scientists from different disciplines, will provide a platform for a new contract between science and society.
Future Earth will bring together natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and the humanities with funders and policy makers to align research agendas, understand and anticipate environmental change, and develop innovative solution.
Future Earth will bring together natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and the humanities with funders and policy makers to align research agendas, understand and anticipate environmental change, and develop innovative solutions.
Future Earth will have a new global governance body and secretariat, building on the strengths of the existing core global environmental change programme, which are co-sponsored by ICSU and other members of the Alliance.
Heide Hackmann, Executive Director of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), insisted on the need to have a new contract between science and policies, and the need for interdisciplinary research, including the Future Earth Initiative.
At the simplest level Future Earth must answer fundamental questions about how and why the global environment is changing, what are likely future changes, what the implications are for the wellbeing of humans and other species, what choices can be made to enhance resilience, create positive futures, and to reduce harmful risks and vulnerabilities, and how this knowledge can support decisions and sustainable development.
In the distant future, Earth is racked by massive earthquakes and water shortages.
When I arrive in Rio for the sustainable development summit, I know that when the buildings along the coast come into view, I shall think of those words, convinced that the sea will determine the future of Earth.
And it helped him imagine something else: a bleak, war-ravaged future version of Earth.
In the highly developed arena of global capitalism everything has its price - even the Earth's future.
Near is providing important information on the structure and composition of asteroids, which would be needed for any future attempt to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid .
The Space Launch System, or SLS for short, is NASA's go-to rocket to carry NASA's planned Orion capsule and possibly other future payloads beyond low-Earth orbit.
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Ibana: Our responsibility towards future generations is mediated by the quality of life on Earth which we shall pass forward to the future in a state that is hopefully better than when we have found it.
It might sound like the plot of a Hollywood movie, but one gigantic asteroid is scheduled to come within 20, 000 miles of Earth in the near future -- a near miss in cosmic measurements -- and the possibility remains that it could hit our planet and cause catastrophic devastation never seen before.
To me, the idea of being forever confined to Earth is a terrible, sad future.
Freedom will be the future of every nation and every people on Earth.
Russia says it also remains committed to sending cosmonauts beyond Earth's orbit in the future, including to a permanent base on the moon that it says could be used as a future launching pad for flights to Mars.
And we want a country that is thinking about the future so that we are good stewards of the Earth.
The international community stands in solidarity in this struggle, resolved to build a future of peace and development for all peoples on Earth.
Increased tourism is pouring money into the area, but rapid commercialisation is also eroding traditional livelihoods as earth buildings increasingly find a more rewarding future as museums.
Indians, once fixed in the American mind's eye as bands of howling savages bent on doing no good to John Wayne, are nowadays more often seen as the devoted children of Mother Earth, determined to preserve the planet for future generations.
This question is being taken increasingly seriously by scientists as more is learnt about the impact a near earth object (NEO) would have on the future of civilization.
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