Overview

The Planetary Skin R&D program will be based on the fundamental scientific and other research & development strengths of the participating institutions to address the strategic research themes of ‘Complex Water, Food, Energy and Integrated Land Use Systems’, ‘Complex Energy Systems’ and ‘Planetary System-wide Transitions’ with a focus on co-developing the three core capabilities of the Planetary Skin decision-support platform to:

• manage resources productively and effectively (energy, biomass, food, water, land, etc)
• manage risks (climate change related risks in sea level rise affecting coastal infrastructures, drought-related crop yield reductions, disease proliferation and pandemics, etc); and
• enable new environmental markets (carbon, water, biodiversity, etc).