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Diversitas
Summary
Diversitas (the Latin word for “diversity”) was an international research programme aiming at integrating biodiversity science for human well-being. In December 2014 its work was transferred to the programme called Future Earth, which was sponsored by the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, comprising the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the Belmont Forum of funding agencies, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations University (UNU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Biodiversity underpins the life-support system of our planet. Both natural and managed ecosystems deliver important ecological services such as the production of food and fibre, carbon storage, climate regulation and recreation opportunities.
The program was established to address the complex scientific questions posed by the loss in biodiversity and ecosystem services and to offer science-based solutions to this crisis.
The program is an international programme of biodiversity science with a dual mission:
Promoting, facilitating and conducting integrative biodiversity science, that links biological, ecological and social disciplines; and
Providing the sound scientific basis for decision making to secure the planet’s variety of life, while contributing to human well-being and poverty eradication.
The program achieves its mission by:
Fostering an integrated network of the world’s leading biodiversity scientists to address critical biodiversity issues;
Producing new knowledge by catalysing exchanges between scientists across nations and disciplines;
Synthesising new biodiversity knowledge to address the global science priorities;
Ensuring an effective engagement of the biodiversity science community globally with policy and decision makers, especially with relevant international conventions;
Developing biodiversity science capacity by nurturing younger scientists around the world.
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