Promoting all sciences for an equitable wellbeing on a healthy planet

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 mobilisation of the organisations 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 mobilisation of all kind of knowledge related activities, basic science research, humanities, social sciences, traditional and indigenous knowledge, together with citizens, their organisations and representatives, to develop an equitable human well-being and planetary health.

Five ways we drive change

ADDRESSING THE URGENT CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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.

FOSTERING TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

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.

SHARING AND PUBLICISING YOUR ENERGIES

We will tell the stories of successful transdisciplinary transformation initiatives and promote their adaptation to new contexts.

REIMAGINING THE ROLE OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

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.

CONTRIBUTING TO THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE

We are working in close collaboration with UNESCO, and we promote transdisciplinary approaches throughout the world alongside other organizations.

ADDRESSING THE URGENT CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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.

FOSTERING TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

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.

SHARING AND PUBLICISING YOUR ENERGIES

We will tell the stories of successful transdisciplinary transformation initiatives and promote their adaptation to new contexts.

REIMAGINING THE ROLE OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

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.

CONTRIBUTING TO THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE

We are working in close collaboration with UNESCO, and we promote transdisciplinary approaches throughout the world alongside other organizations.

“The Earth-Humanity Coalition is the most concrete, thoughtful, reflective and inclusive initiative that I have encountered that acknowledges root causes and seeks to reinvent the process of knowledge creation in order to address humanity’s challenges.”

Prajval Shastri, Emeritus Scientist at Raman Research Institute, India

“The Earth-Humanity Coalition represents a meaningful concerted effort by the academic community, as well as steakholders coming together from different sectors, to fulfill the unrealised promise of the field of sustainability science.”

Steven Hartman, Director, UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, Sweden

“We need to develop and refine our collective landscape of sciences – basic and applied, human and social – for an equitable wellbeing on a healthy planet.”

Marian Asantewah Nkansah, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Student Affairs, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

“Since the existential problems facing the Earth and humanity today are complex and multiple disciplinary, a systemic and transdiciplinary approach in looking for and finding their solutions is necessary.”

Nebojša Nešković, Vice President, The World Academy of Art & Science, Serbia