Future Earth KANs + Sustainable Consumption and Production: Paul Shrivastava

1. Email: paul.shrivastava@futureearth.org
Website: www.futureearth.org
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Twitter: #FutureEarth
Future Earth KANs + Sustainable Consumption and
Production
Paul Shrivastava, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Future Earth

2. Acceleration - Planetary Boundary- Anthropocene
2
Steffen, Broadgate, Deutsch, Gaffney, Ludwig (January 2015) Anthropocene Review
Trends Effects

3. Global Consensus

4. New World,
New Concepts &
Practices
New Role for Science
• Transdisciplinary – Solutions
Oriented
• Holistic, Systemic, Integrative
• Stakeholder Engaged
– Connected, Codesigned,
– Responsive to society
• Planetary to local scales

5. 1. Deliver water, energy,
and food for all, and
manage the synergies and
trade-offs among them
2. Decarbonise socio-
economic systems to stabilise
the climate by promoting the
technological, economic,
social, political and
behavioural transformations
3. Safeguard the
terrestrial, freshwater and
marine natural assets,
biodiversity, ecosystem
services, valuation &
governance
4. Build healthy, resilient
and productive cities,
combining better living,
declining resource
footprints, and resilience
to disasters
5. Promote sustainable
rural futures to feed rising
populations, changes in
biodiversity, resources
6. Improve human health
interactions with
environmental pollution,
pathogens, disease vectors,
ecosystem services,
livelihoods, nutrition
7. Encourage sustainable
consumption and
production patterns that
are equitable
FE 2025 Vision Challenges

6. EcoHEALTH
New name: Future (Earth) Coasts

8. Knowledge Action Networks
• KAN Concept – collaboration networks that
facilitate integrative sustainability research
to inform solutions for Vision 2025
challenges
• Broadening work of the former Global
Environmental Change [GEC] programmes
• Bring multiple disciplines and societal actors
together to respond to the global challenges
• Composed of Core Projects, Fast-Tack
Initiatives and Clusters, endorsed and
associated organisations, projects, and
individuals that are part of the Future Earth
Open Network.
• Contributions voluntary through members
• Document - Objectives, Principles,
Participation-Governance

9. KAN Objectives and Principles
Objectives
• identify and respond to society’s needs for high
quality scientific knowledge for transformation to
sustainability
• generate integrated knowledge that is relevant to
the key decision-makers concerned with the KAN
topics, in public and private sectors at global to
local levels
• develop and cultivate solution-driven,
transdisciplinary research i.e. designed and
produced in collaboration with societal partners.
• add value to research that is or has been carried
out already, by prioritizing questions, integrating
research and knowledge, generating synthesis,
identifying gaps and opportunities, and
stimulating new research.
Principles
Co-creation: community priorities, develop plan -
globally inclusive, synergy with existing projects
Scope: Address 2025 Vision societal challenges and
the three Research Themes
Uniqueness: Fill knowledge gaps defined
collaboratively with experts + users, synthesize and
synergize
Strategy: Solution-orientation, interdisciplinarity,
and co-design and co-production with partners.
Outcomes: products and accomplishing tangible
goals identified by co-design
Internationality: Global community of researchers
and practitioners beyond national or regional.
Openness: Accessible for participation from
interested and suitable persons and projects
Inclusiveness: Inclusiveness and balance in
disciplines, professional backgrounds, geographies,
career stage, and gender.

10. • Membership: driven by the research community and relevant
stakeholders, open and inclusive to participation.
• Leadership: Once defined and scoped, led by a steering group sized
and structured to implement a workplan, balanced representation
from Core Projects, societal partners, early-career practitioners,
funding communities, SC and EC, Sec, global South and North, and
gender
• Oversight: The SC/EC provides strategic guidance, and Secretariat
oversees operations, Governing Council approves strategic changes.
• Management: Overall management by Steering Group and,
additional management staff, plus FE Secretariat support
• Support: Future Earth Secretariat ensures the continuous progress
through coordination and help in identifying new actors and
communities of researchers, stakeholders and decision makers, and
through communication, synthesis coordination, capacity building,
engagement support, event organisation, online tools, and technical
support
KANs - Participation & Governance

11. • Secretariat will work in the early stages to obtain
seed funding to support co-design, scoping
• The bulk of the required additional funds should
be leveraged from external sources
• Mix of public-sector funds (such as Belmont
Forum-Collaborative Research Actions on T-KAN,
FWEn in Urbanization) and private foundations,
private-sector partnerships, and individual donors.
• Operationalization – Initiation, Scoping, Co-
producing Research, Synthesis, Engagement
KANs Resources, Funding, Operationalization

12. Approved Knowledge-Action Networks
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Themes
Challenges
Dynamic Planet Sustainable
Development
Transformations to
Sustainability
1. Water, food, energy for all
2. Decarbonise socioeconomic systems &
adapt
3. Safeguard natural assets
4. Build healthy, resilient cities
5. Sustainable rural futures
6. Improve human health under GEC
7. Sustainable consumption and prod’n
8. Social resilience to future threats
Finance
Transform-
ations
Future Oceans
SDGs
Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Future cities
Future health
Natural assets
Disaster
reduction
(with IRDR)
New
Technologies
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13. Sustainable Production and Consumption
• Vision 2025 - 7. Encourage
sustainable consumption and
production patterns that are
equitable by understanding the social
and environmental impacts of
consumption of all resources,
opportunities for decoupling resource
use from growth in well-being, and
options for sustainable development
pathways and related changes in
human behaviour.
• SDG Goal 12: Responsible
consumption, production

14. • Re-Infrastructuring - Food, Water, Energy
• Manufacturing Systems
– Eco-efficiencies in Input, Output, Throughput
– Eco-design of products, services, packaging
– Waste management, recycling, reuse
• Supply Chain Management
• Research Networks
– ISVC - Joerg Hofstatter
– Closed Loop Supply Chain Mgt
– POM Society
– Organizations and Nat Env Academy of Mgmnt
– GRONEN
Sustainable Production

15. Data, Tools, Gaps
• Data- CDP + Truecost, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley
financial/investment focused
• Tools - Lifecycle analysis, -accounting, costing, reporting tools
- SASB, GRI
• Gaps-
– Financial Economy-Manuf Economy – bioeconomy (natural
resources usage, disposal, recovery)
– Carbon footprint of industries and corporations,
• Linkages with other KANs
– FWEn - Food supply chains and their vulnerabilities
– Future Earth Cities - energy decentralization esp in urban areas
• urban food production, transport, storage, recycling
– FE Finance - decarbonizing susbidies

16. Sustainable Consumption
• World Wide Waste
– Food 40%, Energy 40%, Housing 50%,
Transport 75%
• Inequality – extremes
• Consumption Risks
– Health (1 billion hungry) but 2 billion diabetic
– Biocapacity overshoot
• New Consumption
– Smart Consumption - shared economy,
– Frugality,
– Aging consumption
• Networks - Voluntary simplicity movement
– International Centre for Anti- Consumption
Research
– Consumption Sociology

17. The Challenge of
Sustainable
Production &
Consumption