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Future Earth is a 10–year international research  programme launched in June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) that will provide critical knowledge required for societies to face the challenges posed by global environmental change and to identify opportunities for a transition to global sustainability .   Future Earth will answer fundamental questions such as how and why the global environment is changing . What are likely future changes? What are the risks and implications for human development and for the diversity of life on earth? It will define opportunities to reduce risks and vulnerabilities, to enhance resilience and innovation, and show ways to implement transformations to prosperous and equitable futures .  Future Earth will deliver science of the highest quality, integrating, as necessary, different disciplines from the natural and social sciences (including economic, legal and behavioural research), engineering and humanities . It will be co-designed and co-produced by academics, governments, business and civil society from  all regions of the world, encompass bottom-up  ideas from the wide scientific community,  be solution-oriented, and inclusive of existing international Global  Environmental Change projects and related research activities .