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Future Earth is conducting a horizon scanning on the knowledge gaps in climate change and biodiversity sciences to inform the development of Horizon Europe’s 2025-2027 work program and beyond. Horizon Europe is the European Union’s key funding program for research and innovation, and with a budget of €95.5 billion, it is the largest research funding program in the world. This horizon scanning project will result in an independent expert report, published in early 2024 by the European Commission, and is intended to inform decision-makers both in Europe and globally.

Building off of the process of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science report, we are seeking the input of active researchers, across all disciplines, working with issues related to climate change and biodiversity sciences.

Inputs will help world-leading research funders identify where new research evidence is critical and needed, and share with us what you consider to be currently missing in climate change and biodiversity science research. Relevant topics span a very broad scholarship on the underlying dynamics and impacts of climate change, biodiversity, nature-based solutions, earth observations and other related sustainability science areas. The human dimension and the associated social sciences (such as behavioral science, economics, etc.) are important cross cutting themes in addressing these issues and integral when confronting the climate emergency. We are particularly interested in perspectives taking a systems approach and link to the goals set out by the Paris Agreement, the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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