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| Alliance for Global
Sustainability |
The
Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a unique, international
partnership between four of the world's leading science and
technology universities:
Created in
1997, the AGS today brings together hundreds of university
scientists, engineers, and social scientists to address the complex
issues that lie at the intersection of environmental, economic, and
social goals. Together, we seek to meet these challenges
through:
- * Improving scientific understanding of global environmental
challenges;
- * Developing technology and policy tools to help societies
reconcile ecological and economic concerns; and
- * Educating of a new generation of leaders committed to meeting
the challenges of sustainable development.
Since its
inception, the AGS has pioneered a new research paradigm that brings
together multi-disciplinary research teams from the partner
institutions. Strong, local programs engage faculty, students
and senior research staff from across their respective institutes.
These research teams have developed a significant body of new
knowledge on critical issues in sustainability in the areas of
energy and climate, mobility, urban systems, water and agriculture,
cleaner technologies, and policy and communications.
Since
the first set of AGS-sponsored research projects was launched in
1997 with support by the Avina Foundation, the AGS has worked with
farsighted leaders from global businesses and industries,
governments, and NGOs worldwide to provide innovative and practical
solutions to real and urgent environmental problems around the
world.
Now entering a new phase, the AGS is building upon the
lessons it has learned to embark on large-scale studies of global
importance. The first, entitled "Near-term
pathways to a sustainable energy future", is aimed at developing
near-term scenarios to meet global energy needs while reducing
anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental
threats. The second is entitled "Secure
ecosystem services for a nourished world" and will identify
development paths for social and technical systems that aim for a
nourished world in balance with the provisioning ecosystem. The
programs will consist of a series of regional studies linked by an
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