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Appendix D: An Ugent Call for Action
Appendix D: An Ugent Call for Action
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Now, humankind faces new challenges at unprecedented scale. The first Nobel Prize Summit comes amid a global pandemic, amid a crisis of inequality, amid an ecological crisis, amid a climate crisis, and amid an information crisis.
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The next decade is crucial: global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut by half and destruction of nature halted and reversed. An essential foundation for this transformation is to address destabilizing inequalities in the world.
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Additionally, these land-use changes lead animals to shift their activities from natural ecosystems to farmlands, urban parks, and other human-dominated areas, greatly increasing contact with people and the risk of disease transmission. The Global Commons APPENDIX D Global heating and habitat loss amount to nothing less than a vast and uncontrolled experiment on Earth's life-support system.
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OUR FUTURE A Decade of Action Time is running out to prevent irreversible changes. Ice sheets are approaching tipping points -- parts of the Antarctic ice sheet may have already crossed irreversible tipping points.
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-- Jennifer Doudna (Nobel Prize laureate 2020) Effective planetary stewardship requires updating our Holocene mindset.
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Economic, environmental, and social externalities should be fairly priced. SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: Greater investment is needed in international networks of scientific institutions to allow sustained collaboration on interdisciplinary science for global sustainability as well as transdisciplinary science that integrates diverse knowledge systems, including local, Indigenous, and traditional knowledge.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Owen Gaffney, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University Victor Galaz, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University Leymah Gbowee,* Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Frank Geels, Manchester University Walter Gilbert,*
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University College London Henrik Österblom, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University James Peebles,* Princeton University Arno Penzias,*
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New England Biolabs Johan Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Michael Rosbash,* Brandeis University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute APPENDIX D Oscar Arias Sánchez,*
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"We need the concept of oneness: we all live on one planet and share the same basic way of life. According to that reality, we should no longer emphasize my nation, my country.
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NOBEL PRIZE SUMMIT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EVENT PARTNERS SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS NOBEL INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS SPECIAL THANKS TO ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Carnegie Corporation of New York, DICCE, Elsevier, Embassy of Italy in the US, Embassy of Sweden in the US, Global Solutions Summit, PeaceTech Lab, Project Syndicate, S&R Foundation, The Club of Rome, Peace Department
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