The Earth-Humanity Coalition (EHC) has been created in April 2024 as an answer to a call by the United Nations General Assembly: in the resolution promulgating 2024-2033 as the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD), this assembly explicitly calls for the mobilization of the organizations involved in the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (2022-2023). In close collaboration with UNESCO, EHC aims for the development of co-designed (or transdisciplinary) research for sustainable development: the mobilization of all kind of knowledge related activities, basic science research, humanities, social sciences, traditional and indigenous knowledge, together with citizens, their organizations and representatives, to develop an equitable human well-being and planetary health.
We aim to create transdisciplinary knowledge hubs around the world, to serve the planet and its inhabitants, and produce practical tools to implement deep changes.
The combination of basic, human and social sciences with traditional knowledge and citizen participation, when possible, creates the conditions that enable actors who are generally unheard to play an important role in transformations.
We will tell the stories of successful transdisciplinary transformation initiatives and promote their adaptation to new contexts.
Together, we will re-invent the way in which science and knowledge interact with society and policy, and co-create transdisciplinary approaches to the challenges that lie ahead.
We are working in close collaboration with UNESCO, and we promote transdisciplinary approaches throughout the world alongside other organizations.
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In 2015, all member States of the United Nations agreed on the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, and on its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is a global call to action to eradicate poverty, end hunger, improve human and planetary health, reduce discrimination against women and girls, and ensure that all human beings live in peace and prosperity.
For sciences to contribute efficiently to this program, and to really improve human well-being and planetary health everywhere, we need that all modes of knowledge production work together. That means interdisciplinarity must develop among academic fields, and also that the contributions from traditional and indigenous knowledge, as well as citizens actions and needs, are part of the process. Scientists, politicians, engineers, associations representatives, elders and all goodwill citizens must be partner.
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