planet under pressure - conference

A conference is being planned for 2012 to address the many challenges of global change.

It will be a major international science conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge.

The 2012 international Planet Under Pressure conference will provide a comprehensive update of the pressure planet Earth is now under. The conference will discuss solutions at all scales to move societies on to a sustainable pathway. It will provide scientific leadership towards the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio+20.

• 2500 participants combining global-change science and policy, business and development communities
• Scientific leadership towards the 2012 UN Rio +20 conference
• Building trans-disciplinary research communities
• Identifying opportunities for enhanced partnerships between global change science and policy, industry and the public
• A new vision for international research

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