About IGBP
Created: 1986
Chair: Prof. James Syvitski
IGBP was created by ICSU in 1986 to help coordinate international research on global-scale and regional-scale interactions between Earth's biological, chemical and physical processes and their interactions with human systems. IGBP's vision is to provide essential scientific leadership and knowledge of the Earth system to help guide society onto a sustainable pathway during rapid global change.
The vision has three key elements:
- the planet
- the planet under pressure
- transformation in an era of rapid global change.
IGBP views the Earth system as the Earth's natural physical, chemical and biological cycles and processes and the social and economic dimensions. IGBP research is used by international processes to inform policy on key issues relating to global sustainability, for example the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
