PuP 2012
IGBP, DIVERSITAS, IHDP, WCRP and their Earth System Science Partnership are co-organising the 2012 international Planet Under Pressure conference, 26-29 March 2012, London, UK. This 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.
Official Planet under Pressure 2012 conference website
See here DIVERSITAS contribution to PuP conference.
Why should you attend?
Ecologists, biodiversity and ecosystem services scientists: you should attend because your role in understanding and managing the multiple services provided by ecosystems upon which human well-being depends is being increasingly recognised, and sessions on these topics will be core to the Conference’s message about pressures on the planet. In many regions and systems, biodiversity is changing in ways that severely undermine livelihoods and opportunities for sustainable development. Global policy begins to recognise the need for solutions and action – but existing assessments rely on only a very limited science base. There is an acute need to determine biodiversity change and ecosystem services thresholds that represent unacceptable situations for human well-being; to identify actions that need to be taken to avoid these unacceptable situations; to enhance the capacity of natural systems to support biodiversity and ecosystem services under global change; and to understand the origin, patterns and dynamics of biodiversity and their relationship to ecosystem services and human well-being. Research presented at the Conference can be at any spatial level from local to global, may consider biodiversity from genes to landscapes and biomes, and involve observation, experiments and modelling, in the context of the conference themes.
