The former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has been designated to chair a global research platform panel on sustainable development —‘Future Earth Engagement Committee’— instituted by an alliance of organisations including the UNEP, the UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
The Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability has announced that “Future Earth” will be a global research platform offering knowledge and support to accelerate the transformations to a sustainable world.
The Engagement Committee is a strategic advisory group of thought-leaders from stakeholder groups, including business, policy and civil society, representing the diversity of societal partners needed to address the challenges of global environmental change.
‘Honoured’Mr. Ramesh, who was a member of the U.N. Secretary General’s High-Level Global Sustainability Panel between 2011 and 2012 and played a key role in the U.N. Climate Change Conferences at Copenhagen (2009) and Cancun (2010), said: “I am honoured to chair the Future Earth Engagement Committee at a time when there is growing public consciousness of the environmental challenges we face as a global community and when there is a widespread public desire for concrete actions from all governments.”
