"how, given the current situation, do we manage and allocate, today, the Earth’s resources for the survival of a projected global population of 9 to 10 billion people in 2050 - and for their offspring indefinitely?"
Full project title: Rethinking globalisation in the light of Contraction and CONVERGEnce.
Awarded close to 1.4 million Euros for 4 years research, the project is the first EU FP7 funded research to extend the concept of contraction and convergence beyond emissions trading.
CONVERGE aims to re-think globalisation by developing our understanding of convergence beyond emissions-trading across wider social, economic and ecological dimensions of sustainability. CONVERGE will research, develop and test the processes of contraction, convergence and divergence in current forms of globalisation. The research will be based on systems science to integrate social, scientific and economic disciplines in order to create coherent solutions to complex problems.
Key to the success of this study is the interdisciplinary approach and working with stakeholders from civil society, government and business. CONVERGE seeks to explore convergent sustainability relationships across different scales from local, national, global-regional to global.
CONVERGE has a significant role to play in achieving the strategic objective of the EU’s global partnership: "to promote sustainable development actively worldwide and ensure that the European Union's internal and external policies are consistent with global sustainable development and its international commitments."
A poster mapping out some of CONVERGE's tasks that the CONVERGE team has been using to discuss the project is available here:
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