Future Earth was launched in June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Over the next eighteen months, an open bidding process was held to operationalize the new initiative and a design phase was led by a Transition Team of more than 30 international experts representing the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and international policy, research funding, and business. The final report of the Transition Team is available for download. | Future Earth was launched in June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Over the next eighteen months, an open bidding process was held to operationalize the new initiative and a design phase was led by a Transition Team of more than 30 international experts representing the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and international policy, research funding, and business. The final report of the Transition Team is available for download. |